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L'Enlèvement d'Europe (The Rape of Europa)
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)
1898–99
Medium/Technique
Woodblock
Dimensions
24 x 23 x 4 cm (9 1/2 x 9 1/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession Number36.624
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsTools and equipment – Printmaking
Catalogue Raisonné
Kornfeld 47
ProvenanceAbout 1907, sold by Gustave Fayet (b. 1865 - d. 1925), Béziers, France, to Eugène Druet (dealer; b. 1868 - d. 1917), Galerie Druet, Paris; 1918, sent by Galerie Druet to an exhibition in Stockholm and sold to the artist's son, Pola Gauguin (b. 1883 – d. 1961), Copenhagen and Oslo; 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 Raisonné of his Prints (Bern: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), p. 188.
NOTE:
Provenance information is taken from Elizabeth Mongan, Paul Gauguin, Catalogue Raisonné of his Prints (Bern: Galerie Kornfeld, 1988), p. 188.