Art Institute of Chicago

Caricatures of Gauguin and Governor Gallet, with headpiece from Le sourire

Paul Gauguin

1900

Attribution

Paul Gauguin French, 1848-1903

Medium

Watercolor, with black colored pencil, and touches of pen and black ink, over a transfer drawing in black, and wood-block print in black ink with blue watercolor on cream wove paper

Physical dimensions

Sheet: 29.8 × 20.4 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.); Headpiece: 9.8 × 16.4 cm (3 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

Credit line

Gift of Walter S. Brewster