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Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses (Love, and You Will Be Happy), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints
1899
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Second-state impression laid down on first-state impression Wood-block print of second state in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on wood-block print of first state in yellow ocher ink with traces of black ink on grayish-ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in black and yellow ocher ink and oxidized linseed oil (est.) on grayish-ivory wove paper (partial offset impression of the second state) (verso)
- Dimensions
- 164 × 276 mm (image), 165 × 276 mm (primary/secondary support)
- Collection no.
- 2002.247
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Gauguin. Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses (Love, and You Will Be Happy), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints. Paul Gauguin; Art Institute of Chicago; Gift of Edward McCormick Blair. 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
Soyez amoureuses, vous serez heureuses (Love, and You Will Be Happy), from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints — Paul Gauguin. 1899.
Medium: Second-state impression laid down on first-state impression Wood-block print of second state in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper, laid down on wood-block print of first state in yellow ocher ink with traces of black ink on grayish-ivory wove paper (recto); wood-block print in black and yellow ocher ink and oxidized linseed oil (est.) on grayish-ivory wove paper (partial offset impression of the second state) (verso). Dimensions: 164 × 276 mm (image), 165 × 276 mm (primary/secondary support).
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.