Les Vieilles Filles à Arles (Old Maids of Arles); The Spinsters

Paul Gauguin, French, 1848 - 1903

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1889

Lithograph on yellow wove paper

30-50; first edition

Sight: 8 in. (20.3 cm)

Sight: 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund

PR.961.297

Printer

Imprimerie Edward Ancourt

Publisher

Paul Gauguin, Paris, France

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in plate, lower left: P. Gauguin

Course History

FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013

FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013

FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2014

WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014

FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2014

FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2014

FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2015

ARTH 41.04, European Art 1850-1900, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019

ARTH 41.04, European Art 1850-1900, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019

ENGL 62.03/WGSS 48.09, 19th Century British Women Writers, Carolyn Dever, Fall 2019

Exhibition History

19th Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12-March 25, 1979.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7-26, 1997.

Cultural Exchange, the Body, and Art and Technology, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 25-March 9, 2003.

Forms and Messages: Selections from the Hood Museum of Art Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-March 10, 2002.

Gifts of the Class of 1937, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-November 11, 1973.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17, 2000-January 14, 2001.

Selections from the Permanent Collection: An Introduction to the History of Art From the Year 1500 to the Present, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-March 7, 1993.

Visions of Modernity: Nineteenth-Century European Art from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 21, 1998.

Provenance

M. R. Schweitzer (dealer), New York; sold to present collection, 1961.

Catalogue Raisonne

E. Mongan, E. Kornfeld and H. Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue raisonne of his Prints, Bern, 1988, no. 9.

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