
About the work
The Virgin and Child (La vierge et l'enfant) is a zincograph in black on heavy japan paper by Paul Gauguin, dated 1895. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) was a French Post-Impressionist who worked with flat colour and simplified forms, first in Brittany and later in Tahiti. He was also an inventive printmaker, in woodcut and in the zincographs of the 1889 Volpini Suite. The original is in the collection of National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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