DETAILS
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Date
- 1870
- Medium
- graphite
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hickox
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THE ARTIST
Paul Gauguin
1848–1903 · FrancePaul Gauguin, the French Post-Impressionist, abandoned a stockbroker's life for art, famously seeking 'refuge from Western civilization' in Tahiti.
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The Seine at Pont de Grenelle
1875 · Wallraf–Richartz Museum
Still Life: Wood Tankard and Metal Pitcher
1880 · Art Institute of Chicago
The Little One Is Dreaming, Etude
1881 · Ordrupgaard
An Orchard under the Church of Bihorel
1884 · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Blue roofs of Rouen
1884 · Museum collection Am Römerholz
Evening Primroses in a Vase
1885
Fruit
1886
Stil life with white vase
1886 · Kunsthaus Zürich
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Beyond Gauguin and Symbolism: works from the same years, and from the other movements Profile Bust of a Man (verso) belongs to.
Same movement · Post-Impressionism
Gustave Boyer (b. 1840) in a Straw Hat
Paul Cézanne · 1870 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1850s–1880s
Cart with Red and White Ox
Vincent van Gogh · 1884 · Kröller-Müller Museum
Same movement · Impressionism
The Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes, 1854–1935)
Berthe Morisot · 1870 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1850s–1880s
Two Boats in a Storm
Léon-Victor Dupré · 1870 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same movement · Impressionism
After the Bullfight
Mary Cassatt · 1873 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1850s–1880s
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Kawabata Gyokushō · 1877 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same movement · Impressionism
A Turn in the Road
Alfred Sisley · 1873 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1850s–1880s
The Backgammon Players
Philip Webb · 1861 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same movement · Impressionism
The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
Claude Monet · 1867 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1850s–1880s
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
Okada Saburosuke · 1884 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same movement · Impressionism
The Banks of the Marne in Winter
Camille Pissarro · 1866 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1850s–1880s
In the Adirondacks
William Hart · 1870 · Q847508
Same movement · Impressionism
Alfred Sisley
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1864 · Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection
Same era · 1850s–1880s
Moroccan Horseshoer
Mariano Fortuny Marsal · 1870 · Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Same movement · Impressionism
Beggar with Oysters (Philosopher)
Édouard Manet · 1864 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1850s–1880s
Snow at Louveciennes
Camille Pissarro · 1870 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same movement · Impressionism
Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys
Edgar Degas · 1860 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1850s–1880s
The Little Shepherdess
Jean-François Millet · 1870 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same movement · Post-Impressionism
Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1887 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1850s–1880s
Apples
Gustave Courbet · 1871 · National Museum of Western Art
Same movement · Post-Impressionism
Olive Trees
Vincent van Gogh · 1853 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1850s–1880s
Mountain View at Bormio (from Switzerland 1869 Sketchbook)
John Singer Sargent · 1869 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same movement · Post-Impressionism
Carmelina
Henri Matisse · 1903 · Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Same era · 1850s–1880s
The Rehearsal Onstage
Edgar Degas · 1871 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art




