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
- Les cigales et les fourmis (The Grasshoppers and the Ants), 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 on chrome yellow wove paper
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Inscriptions
- Signed recto, in plate, lower left, in image, in black printing ink: "P Gauguin"; inscribed in plate, lower left, below image, in black printing ink: "Les Cigales [s in reverse] et les [s in reverse] fourmis [s in reverse]"; inscribed upper right in graphite: "73 bis"
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Dimensions
- Image: 21.6 × 26.1 cm (8 9/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Plate, approx: 21.9 × 29.3 cm (8 5/8 × 11 9/16 in.); Sheet: 49.8 × 64.9 cm (19 5/8 × 25 9/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1943.1022
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/48758/manifest.json