Three Tahitian Women

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Artist: Paul Gauguin
Date: 1896
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 9 5/8 x 17 in. (24.4 x 43.2 cm)
Department: European Paintings
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Olive Ground · Yellow family · #7A6A40 · 21%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #A6985F · 15%

Blue Spruce Cloth · Teal family · #193F39 · 10%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #1E2536 · 9%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #594627 · 7%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #904F05 · 7%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #3C371B · 6%

Pine Needle · Green family · #485F44 · 5%

Clay Tablet · Brown family · #8A6251 · 4%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #CCBD92 · 3%

Press Black · Black family · #06170F · 3%

Ochre Kiln · Orange family · #B66200 · 3%

Granite Face · Gray family · #6D675E · 2%

Clay Tablet · Brown family · #856665 · 2%

Granite Face · Gray family · #676876 · 1%

Lead Type · Gray family · #758783 · <1%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #999AA8 · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #1B185D · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1997, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

10 tags

Nude Both · 99%

The museum lists the subjects as Women and Female Nudes, and the image visibly shows three female figures with exposed torsos and draped or skirted lower bodies.
Human Figure Both · 99%

The title identifies three women, and three prominently rendered human figures occupy the foreground.
Figures in Nature Visual · 97%

The figures are placed outdoors amid dense vegetation, flowering forms, a tree trunk, and an open, horizontally banded ground or landscape.
Flora Visual · 96%

Leafy vegetation, tree branches, and numerous pale and pink flowering forms are visibly integrated throughout the setting and the figures’ hair.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 97%

Saturated greens, reds, oranges, pinks, yellows, blue-violets, and mauves are distributed across the figures, clothing, foliage, and ground.
Dense Composition Visual · 89%

The three figures, tree trunk, foliage, flowers, and layered landscape marks occupy most of the compact horizontal format.

Oil Painting Both · 99%

The museum specifies oil on wood, while the image visibly presents an oil-painted surface with opaque, layered pigment.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 94%

Broad, plainly visible strokes and patches of pigment describe the bodies, skirts, foliage, tree, and ground rather than finely modeling every surface.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The work is dated 1896, placing it within the nineteenth century.

Wood Metadata · 99%

The recorded medium is oil on wood. The catalog does not specify the precise construction or support format beyond wood.

Paul Gauguin. Three Tahitian Women. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.