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Projet d’assiette (Leda) (Design for a Plate [Leda]), frontispiece from the Volpini Suite
1889
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Zincograph in black, with pale orange, red and green watercolor and white crayon, on chrome yellow wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.7 × 20.5 cm (8 9/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 30.4 × 26 cm (12 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.1021a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Gauguin. Projet d’assiette (Leda) (Design for a Plate [Leda]), frontispiece from the Volpini Suite. Paul Gauguin; Art Institute of Chicago; William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment. 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
Projet d’assiette (Leda) (Design for a Plate [Leda]), frontispiece from the Volpini Suite — Paul Gauguin. 1889.
Medium: Zincograph in black, with pale orange, red and green watercolor and white crayon, on chrome yellow wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 21.7 × 20.5 cm (8 9/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 30.4 × 26 cm (12 × 10 1/4 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.