Earthly Paradise

Art Institute of Chicago

Earthly Paradise

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)LinkedCulture matchlcp-3ef41a0a155c

Date
1888
Medium
Wood with paint, glass and metal
Culture
France
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
188629

Combining painting, sculpture, and carpentry, this unique object was created collaboratively by Paul Gauguin and his younger contemporary Émile Bernard . Their artistic experiments, often undertaken in the spirit of friendly competition, challenged hierarchical distinctions between fine art, grounded in aesthetics, and decorative art, associated with functionality. Bernard carved the left panel and possibly the bottom panel. Both artists incorporated animals, trees, and people from village life in Brittany, France, motifs they also used in their paintings. The figures on the right panel were inspired by Gauguin’s trip the previous year to the Caribbean island of Martinique. This visit informed his later decision to leave France, which ultimately led him to Tahiti.

View at Art Institute of Chicago ↗

The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.WUrC4m3J3ZEakjA9.bH9nDRQGwlu8uzufPt-CSjaDgxtLrpuN8QldrrrMbNeCUPgh7oJfWUZwSiTrOH-QU-8lEHYmzPmpBw3XZxTXs68kfMUZa75sTBDkdEZf_4FjA3EV4G8xqDtKl2SjYJqq_w2CF-e51rh7d_m6DDdc29KbtRxHqp_zyo2AY2A5YEe2RGYsoGuAsK_6U_inMR1k3CuV331ndI33OQMGiZZZvHcwBUwiCEeQXeKcoNkqu3DMjVR6fh8Ve4BTszVrE5xWFx7-uZCX7ag6xTIUevRhDufefaCQSee at Art Institute of Chicago QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.p6hNG2RFZrec05JB.y50WcxF3tfTXGbkIGuxEz6snpPIZCxY7E2WY-k9wZHsVVRYh9VGg64Vr9-NQaJBGSucI6GcJyXn3rmIipNpfnittKq2ikEiYgLCQJaWNsclmma08wjCozcAFP6nT8NU_3qDA1wQ1L_Xr60VVG5tHDwNkrLoW6U4MZdHWYwMsxEvXY8pQOCjgRfQRSHG-THmeO-2VwIJ7anb7a384xwzxzgsj8KFqHpg5fA-w4sAnfvNEWpRNE8YyVN3FY_TSU9nxKm9eOlhxXAzz83BK5JUr2TIhMA
Open this page
See at Art Institute of Chicago

Provenance & credit

As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.

Credit line
Through prior gift of Henry Morgen, Ann G. Morgen, Meyer Wasser, and Ruth G. Wasser; purchased with funds provided by Edward M. Blair
Provenance
Commissioned by Henri-Ernest-Ponthier de Chamaillard, Pont-Aven and Mesquéon-en-Gourlizon, France, 1888 to at least 1911 [this and the following according to Cariou 2003]. Lluís Garriga Roig (died 1939), Paris, by 1935; by descent within the family, 1939 [according to Thomson 2005]. Sold to Maurana Art Ltd., Zurich, about 1993 [according to Jean-Marie Le Fell to Gloria Groom, Oct. 8, 2015; email copy in curatorial object file]; sold by Galerie Le Fell, Paris, as an agent for Maurana Art Ltd., Zurich, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.

Linked open data

Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.

Object type
AAT300301253

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.