L'Enlèvement d'Europe (The Rape of Europa)
Paul Gauguin
(French, 1848–1903)
1898–99
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock
Dimensions24 x 23 x 4 cm (9 1/2 x 9 1/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit LineHarriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession number36.624
On View
Not on viewClassificationsTools and equipment
Collections
ProvenanceAbout 1907, sold by Gustave Fayet (b. 1865 - d. 1925), Béziers, France, to Eugène Druet; 1918, sent by Druet to an exhibition in Stockholm and sold to Pola Gauguin; 1928, sold by Pola Gauguin to Leicester Galleries, London [see note]. 1936, sold by Henri M. Petiet (b. 1894 - d. 1980), Paris, through Colnaghi, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 5, 1936)
NOTE:
Provenance information is taken from Elizabeth Mongan, Paul Gauguin, Catalogue Raisonne´ of his Prints (Bern: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), p. 188.
NOTE:
Provenance information is taken from Elizabeth Mongan, Paul Gauguin, Catalogue Raisonne´ of his Prints (Bern: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), p. 188.
Paul Gauguin
Carved panel dates from about 1895–1901, printed posthumously