Art, literature & history
Le sourire: Journal sérieux, Sept. 19, 1899
1899
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Mimeograph in brownish-black ink, with wood-block prints in black ink on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Printed monogram: Diam.: 3.2 cm (1 5/16 in.); Full sheet: 35 × 52 cm (13 13/16 × 20 1/2 in.); Folded sheet: 35 × 26.1 cm (13 13/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Title block: 2.4 × 9.4 cm (1 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1948.422
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Gauguin. Le sourire: Journal sérieux, Sept. 19, 1899. Paul Gauguin; Art Institute of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Le sourire: Journal sérieux, Sept. 19, 1899 — Paul Gauguin. 1899.
Medium: Mimeograph in brownish-black ink, with wood-block prints in black ink on cream wove paper. Dimensions: Printed monogram: Diam.: 3.2 cm (1 5/16 in.); Full sheet: 35 × 52 cm (13 13/16 × 20 1/2 in.); Folded sheet: 35 × 26.1 cm (13 13/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Title block: 2.4 × 9.4 cm (1 × 3 3/4 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.