Pleasures of Brittany (Joies de Bretagne)

1889

Paul Gauguin

Artist/publisher, French, 1848 - 1903

Edouard Ancourt

Printer, French, active 1860s/1890s

Paul Gauguin

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph (zinc) on yellow wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 31.5 × 48.8 cm (12 3/8 × 19 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1978.54.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mongan et al. 1988, no. 7, State only state (Ab)

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2000

  • Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, no. 45, as Joies de Bretagne (Pleasures of Brittany), 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. 45.

Inscriptions

recto: in stone, at lower left: Paul Gauguin / Joies de Bretagne

Wikidata ID

Q65576076

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