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Date:

1900

Artist:

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

About this artwork

Status

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paul Gauguin

Title

Caricatures of Gauguin and Governor Gallet, with headpiece from Le sourire

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1900

Medium

Watercolor, with black colored pencil, and touches of pen and black ink, over a transfer drawing in black, and wood-block print in black ink with blue watercolor on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed lower left, in black crayon: "P. Gauguin"; inscribed center right, in black crayon: "Marlbrough s'en va t en guerre"; in blue ink: "Mironton Mirontaine"; lower right, in black crayon: "Joli joujou"

Dimensions

Sheet: 29.8 × 20.4 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.); Headpiece: 9.8 × 16.4 cm (3 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Walter S. Brewster

Reference Number

1949.605

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