Les drames de la mer: Bretagne (Dramas of the Sea: Brittany), from the Volpini Suite

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Les drames de la mer: Bretagne (Dramas of the Sea: Brittany), from the Volpini Suite, 1889. Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper.

Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper · Image: 17.6 × 22.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism

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Museum title: Les drames de la mer: Bretagne (Dramas of the Sea: Brittany), from the Volpini Suite
Artist: Paul Gauguin French, 1848-1903
Date: 1889
Medium: Zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 17.6 × 22.6 cm (6 15/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Plate, approx: 20.3 × 29.7 cm (8 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 49.8 × 65 cm (19 5/8 × 25 5/8 in.)
Credit line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1848–1903

Post-Impressionism c. 1886–1905

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.