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("Leda") Design for a Plate: Shame on Those Who Evil Think (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) ; cover illustration for the "Volpini Suite" entitled Lithographic Drawings (Dessins lithographiques)

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("Leda") Design for a Plate: Shame on Those Who Evil Think (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) ; cover illustration for the "Volpini Suite" entitled Lithographic Drawings (Dessins lithographiques)

Paul Gauguin

Date
1889
Medium
Zincograph, colored by hand with watercolor and gouache on chrome yellow wove paper; mounted on marbled paper applied to millboard (cover of print portfolio, trimmed)
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 15/16 x 10 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.9 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
22.82.2(1)
Credit line
Rogers Fund, 1922
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands

Subjects and terms

  • Profiles
  • Women
  • Flowers
  • Leaves

The Met object ID 337827. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.