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Title:
Harvest: Le Pouldu
Object name(s):
Picture; French
Brief description:
In 1890 Gauguin was staying at Marie Henry's boarding house in Le Pouldu, Brittany. The headland in this painting is at the western end of the beach, about a mile from the village itself. Gauguin painted other versions of this landscape, all of which are characterised by the strongly defined forms and flat areas of colour of his Synthetist style. He also used it in a simplified form for the background of his Symbolist work, 'The Loss of Virginity', painted in Paris in the winter of 1890-91 (Norfolk, Virginia, The Chrysler Museum).
Collection:
National Gallery
Credit line:
On loan from Tate: Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of tax and allocated to the Tate Gallery 1966
Current location:
Room 45
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
73.00
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measured part:
Overall
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
92.10
Form:
None
Inscription content:
Signed; Dated
Material:
Oil on canvas
Object name:
Picture; French
Object production date:
Date - period:
1850-74
Object production date:
1890
Date - earliest / single:
1873
Date - latest:
1873
Object production person:
Paul Gauguin
Person's birth date:
1848
Person's death date:
1903
Other number:
L709
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0D0O-0001-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
L709
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
T00895
Other number type:
Lender Object Number
Other number:
000-0128-0000
Other number type:
PID (NG alternative)
Other number:
l2709
Other number type:
sort number
Responsible department/section:
Main Collection
Right note:
To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Style:
Nabi
Style:
Symbolist
User's reference:
The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
Reference details:
765
Reference note:
Key bibliography
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
Paul Gauguin.
Reference details:
Ill. fig. 13.3 (p. 54)
Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
Gauguin : maker of myth /edited by Belinda Thomson ; with contributions by Philippe Dagen … [et al.].
Reference details:
Ill. fig. 54 (p. 122)
Reference type:
reference

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/56e1c7ba-b248-36ed-a211-e7f662be139c

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/56e1c7ba-b248-36ed-a211-e7f662be139c, National Gallery, CC BY

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