The Washerwomen (Les laveuses), 1889

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series Title

Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques

Medium

lithograph (zinc) on yellow wove paper

Dimensions

image: 21.1 × 26.5 cm (8 5/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

sheet: 31 × 45.4 cm (12 3/16 × 17 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

Catalogue Raisonné

Mongan et al. 1988, no. 10, State only state (Ab)

Accession Number

1985.7.1

Artists / Makers

Paul Gauguin (artist/publisher) French, 1848 - 1903

Edouard Ancourt (printer) French, active 1860s/1890s

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: lower right in plate: P.Gauguin; verso: upper right, in graphite: 383; lower center verso in graphite: OTMIAIAH; lower right verso in graphite: VIXXX

Marks and Labels

none

Exhibition History

2000: Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, no. 47, as Les Laveuses (Washerwomen), from Dix zincographies.

Bibliography

1927: Guérin, Marcel. L'Oeuvre gravé de Gauguin. 2 vols. Paris: H. Floury, 1927.

1988: Mongan, Elizabeth, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim. Paul Gauguin: Catalogue Raisonne of his Prints. Berne: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988.

2000: Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001: no. 47.