The Woman with Figs
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
printer Eugène Delâtre (French, 1864–1938)
publisher Julius Meier-Graefe (German, 1867–1935)
1894, printed 1899
- Medium
- Etching and soft-ground with open bite and selective wiping, printed in green-black ink
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image and Plate: 26.7 x 44 cm (10 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.); Sheet: 44.4 x 59.4 cm (17 1/2 x 23 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Anne Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The Woman with Figs is one of only two etchings created by Gauguin and was made in collaboration with his friend Armand Séguin, whose address is inscribed in the upper left of the print. Inexperienced with the medium of etching, Gauguin likely drew the composition himself but relied on his friend to help him with the more technically complex aspects of the process such as laying the ground and biting the plate.
