Vessel with Women and Goats
ca. 1887–89
Medium
Stoneware
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed, irregular diameter): 7 7/8 × 4 5/8 × 4 3/8 in., 2.2 lb. (20 × 11.7 × 11.1 cm, 1 kg)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
French, Paris
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Purchase, Acquisitions Fund; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and 2011 Benefit Fund, 2013
Accession Number
2013.471
Tags
About the Artist
Paul Gauguin · 1848–1903
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose bold experiments with color, form, and subject matter made him one of the most influential figures in the transition from 19th-century art to modernism. His rejection of European civilization for the perceived authenticity of 'primitive' cultures established an archetype of artistic exile that continues to resonate. Gauguin's ...