Paul Gauguin

The Yellow Christ (recto), Female Bather Wading through a Brook

c. 1889

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Salted paper print (extremely faded) toned with watercolor, on cream wove silver printing-out paper, laid down on cream card (recto); albumen print laid down on cream card (verso)

Dimensions

154 × 123 mm (primary support) (recto); 122 × 86 mm (primary support) (verso); 168 × 133 mm (secondary support)

Collection no.

1981.150R

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Paul Gauguin. The Yellow Christ (recto), Female Bather Wading through a Brook, c. 1889. Inventory 1981.150R. Paul Gauguin; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Bequest of Elizabeth F. Chapman. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113913. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. The photograph shows the complete watercolor-toned, faded salted-paper print on the recto, as described by the native object medium. The female-bather albumen print on the verso is not shown.