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Woman with Figs
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Medium

Etching, lavis, and soft-ground etching on zinc, printed in green ink

Dimensions

10 1/2 x 17 7/16 in. (26.7 x 44.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Paul Gauguin

1848–1903France

He was one of the leading French painters of the Postimpressionist period. He is noted for his imaginative subjects and expressive use of color, in attempts to capture a more primitive emotion in his works. He professed an appreciation of exotic peoples, whom he believed to be innocent of modern civilization's woes.