# Caricature of Paul Gauguin

- By: Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941)
- Date: 1889
- Medium: watercolor and black ink on paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: Sheet: 19.9 x 15.5 cm (7 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.75)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.75/2018.75_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Émile Bernard worked closely with Paul Gauguin in the village of Pont-Aven during the late 1880s, adopting a new style that emphasized imagination rather than observed reality. This caricatural portrait dates to their most intense period of collaboration, and shows Gauguin as the leader of a new school of painting, seated regally and holding a walking stick that resembles a scepter.