# Tahitian Faces (Frontal View and Profiles), in Post-Impressionism

Paul Gauguin drew this in about 1899, aged about 46. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A Tahitian woman’s face is studied from the front and in profile, in soft charcoal on laid paper.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1899
- Medium: Charcoal on laid paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 16 1/8 x 12 1/4 in. (41 x 31.1 cm)
- Type: Drawings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.418
- 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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