About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Paul Gauguin
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Title
- Projet d’assiette (Leda) (Design for a Plate [Leda]), frontispiece from the Volpini Suite
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1889
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Medium
- Zincograph in black, with pale orange, red and green watercolor and white crayon, on chrome yellow wove paper
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Inscriptions
- Signed recto, below image, in pen and brown ink: "Dessins Lithographiques / Paul Gauguin"; signed in plate, upper right, printed in black ink: "homis soit qui mal y pense PGO [in reverse]"; inscribed in plate, below image, printed in black ink: "Projet d’asiet en 89"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "43.1021A / R8013"
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Dimensions
- Image: 21.7 × 20.5 cm (8 9/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 30.4 × 26 cm (12 × 10 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1943.1021a
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/48755/manifest.json