1965.283: Head of a Breton Peasant Girl

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.283

People

Paul Gauguin, French (Paris 1848 - 1903 Fatu-Iwa [Marquesas Islands])

Title

Head of a Breton Peasant Girl

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1889

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296326

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite, black and red crayon, and black wash on white paper

Dimensions

22.4 × 20 cm (8 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Charles Vignier, Paris] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, by 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.283

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1929), no. 48, p. 27
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 690, fig. 362
• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 36
• Ira Moskowitz and Maurice Sérullaz, Drawings of the Masters: French Impressionists, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1962), pl. 127
• Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 828, n.p., repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 64, repr.
• Catherine Puget, Le cercle de Gauguin en Bretagne, exh. cat., Musée de Pont-Aven (Pont-Aven, 1994), no. 25, repr.

Exhibition History

• French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/06/1929 - 04/06/1929
• The Complete Graphic Work and a Selection of Paintings by Paul Gauguin, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 06/17/1938 - 10/02/1938
• Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
• Untitled exhibition of French drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 10/08/1943 - 11/21/1943
• Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 02/12/1959 - 03/29/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 04/23/1959 - 05/31/1959
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• Paul Gauguin: In Search of Paradise, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, 03/06/1987 - 05/17/1987; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 06/12/1987 - 06/28/1987
• Le cercle de Gauguin en Bretagne, Musée de Pont-Aven, 06/26/1994 - 09/26/1994

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