# Pleasures of Brittany (Joies de Bretagne), in Post-Impressionism

Paul Gauguin made this in 1889, aged 41. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Two Breton women in traditional dress, one in a striped apron, walk arm in arm among haystacks, with a dog nearby and a spire in the distance.

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## The work

- Date: 1889
- Medium: lithograph (zinc) on yellow wove paper
- Dimensions: sheet: 31.5 × 48.8 cm (12 3/8 × 19 3/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978.54.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Gauguin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-gauguin), French, 1848–1903

Gauguin worked as a Paris stockbroker and collected the Impressionists before taking up painting full time in the 1880s, showing in the last five Impressionist exhibitions.

10 works in the collection.

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