Cleveland Museum of Art

The Woman with Figs

Paul Gauguin

Date

1894, printed 1899

Medium

Etching and soft-ground with open bite and selective wiping, printed in green-black ink

Culture

France

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Woman with Figs is one of only two etchings created by Gauguin and was made in collaboration with his friend Armand Séguin, whose address is inscribed in the upper left of the print. Inexperienced with the medium of etching, Gauguin likely drew the composition himself but relied on his friend to help him with the more technically complex aspects of the process such as laying the ground and biting the plate. The woman depicted in this print is likely Madeleine Bernard, the sister of Gauguin’s close friend Emile Bernard.

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