The Day of God

1894–95

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Woodcut on china paper; edition in black ink on china paper
Dimensions: block: 7 3/16 x 8 in. (18.3 x 20.3 cm) sheet: 10 3/8 x 17 1/8in. (26.4 x 43.5cm)
Collection no.: 21.38.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Paul Gauguin. The Day of God. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Day of God — Paul Gauguin. 1894–95.

Medium: Woodcut on china paper; edition in black ink on china paper. Dimensions: block: 7 3/16 x 8 in. (18.3 x 20.3 cm) sheet: 10 3/8 x 17 1/8in. (26.4 x 43.5cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1921.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

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.

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