The Ninth Wave
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Within Vinony's link graph, The Ninth Wave is referenced by 37 other articles, and connects out to Russian Museum, Russian and Saint Petersburg.
Vinony files it under 1850 paintings, Collection of the Russian Museum and Maritime paintings.
Its subject is documented across 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Artist
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Medium
- Oil-on-canvas
- Dimensions
- 221 cm × 332 cm (87 in × 131 in)
- Location
- State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- painting
- Genre
- marine art
- Depicts
- Sun
- Material used
- canvas
- Creator
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Collection
- Russian Museum
- Location
- Russian Museum
- Image
- Hovhannes Aivazovsky - The Ninth Wave - Google Art Project.jpg
- Height
- 221
- Width
- 332
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- Commons category
- The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky
- inception
- 1850-01-01
- name in kana
- だいきゅうのはとう
- native label
- Девятый вал
- inventory number
- Ж-2202
- title
- The Ninth Wave
- copyright status
- public domain
- described at URL
- rusmuseumvrm.ru/data/collections/painting/18_19/zh_2202
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ninth Wave (Russian: Девятый вал, Dyevyatiy val) is an 1850 painting by Russian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his best-known work.
The title refers to an old sailing expression referring to a wave of incredible size that comes after a succession of incrementally larger waves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Ninth Wave” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.