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Paul Gauguin: Self-portrait with Portrait of Bernard  wikidata:Q3780813 reasonator:Q3780813
Artist
Paul Gauguin  (1848–1903)  wikidata:Q37693 s:fr:Auteur:Paul Gauguin q:en:Paul Gauguin
 
Paul Gauguin
Alternative names
Henri Eugène Paul Gauguin
Description French painter and writer
Date of birth/death 7 June 1848 Edit this at Wikidata 8 May 1903 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Atuona Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q37693
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
French:
Autoportrait avec portrait de Bernard, 'Les Misérables'

Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables)
title QS:P1476,fr:"Autoportrait avec portrait de Bernard, 'Les Misérables'"
label QS:Lfr,"Autoportrait avec portrait de Bernard, 'Les Misérables'"
label QS:Len,"Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables)"
label QS:Lca,"Autoretrat amb retrat de Bernard, o Els miserables"
label QS:Lde,"Selbstporträt »Les Misérables«"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre self-portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Self-portrait (in the role of 'Les Misérables' protagonist Jean Valjean) with Émile Bernard portrait in the background, for Vincent van Gogh.
Depicted people
Date 1888
date QS:P571,+1888-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 45 cm (17.7 in); width: 55 cm (21.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,45U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,55U174728
institution QS:P195,Q224124
Current location
Level Third floor, room Van Gogh and his contemporaries
Accession number
s0224V1962 (Van Gogh Museum) Edit this at Wikidata
Inscriptions

Title, dedication, signature and date bottom right:

les misérables / à l'ami Vincent / P. Gauguin 88
Notes
English: Gauguin saw Victor Hugo's Valjean, rejected by society, as a symbol of the misunderstood and rejected, like Bernard, Van Gogh and himself. Note the sharply contrasting background, which Gauguin declared to "refer to artistic purity".
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Source/Photographer
  • 1.The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.
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current21:01, 25 March 2015Thumbnail for version as of 21:01, 25 March 20153,094 × 2,480 (2.03 MB)C1cadaHigh resolution file from Van Gogh Museum - authentic colors (the Yorck is over saturated)
12:11, 19 May 2005Thumbnail for version as of 12:11, 19 May 20053,176 × 2,527 (888 KB)File Upload Bot (Eloquence){{Painting| |Title=<br /> ** ''de:'' Selbstporträt »Les Misérables« |Technique=<br /> ** ''de:'' Öl auf Leinwand |Dimensions=<br /> ** ''de:'' 45 × 55 cm |Location=<br /> ** ''de:'' Amsterdam |Country=<br /> ** ''de:'' Frankreich |Gallery=<br /> **

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