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Paul Gauguin
The Swineherd1888

On view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1
Oil painting landscape with a standing figure in a blue jacket and brown hat, two golden yellow pigs grazing nearby, a village with a white church steeple in the distance, and rolling amber hills beyond
Artist or Maker
Paul Gauguin
France, Paris, 1848-1903
Title
The Swineherd
Place Made
France
Date Made
1888
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 28 3/4 × 36 5/8 in. (73.03 × 93.03 cm) Frame: 41 × 48 × 5 in. (104.14 × 121.92 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lucille Ellis Simon and family in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary
Accession Number
M.91.256
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Loyrette, Henri, editor. Gauguin's World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao. Parkes, ACT: National Gallery of Australia, 2024.
  • Malingue, Maurice. Gauguin: Le Peintre et son Oeuvre. Paris: Les Presses de la Cité, 1948.
  • Brettel, Richard, Françoise Cachin, Claire Frèches-Thory, and Charles F. Stuckey. The Art of Paul Gauguin. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1988.

  • Wildenstein, Georges. Gauguin. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1964.

  • Rewald, John. Gauguin. Paris: Hyperion Press, 1938.,