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Joies de Bretagne (Joys of Brittany), from the Volpini Suite

Paul Gauguin · 1889

Palette

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Artist

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Date

1889

Type

Print

Medium

Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper

Size

Image: 20.2 × 24.1 cm (8 × 9 1/2 in.); Plate, approx: 21.4 × 29.6 cm (8 7/16 × 11 11/16 in.); Sheet: 50 × 65.1 cm (19 11/16 × 25 11/16 in.)

Place

France

Period

19th century

Main colour

Yellow · lightness 84, colourfulness 60

Art Institute of Chicago, William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Art Institute of Chicago marks it public domain (is_public_domain = True). Europe: Artist died 1903: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1974. Last checked 2026-10-31 (is_public_domain: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules