Two Women
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Details
- Artist
- Paul Gauguin
- Date
- 1901 or 1902
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm)
- Department
- European Paintings
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Palette
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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
Art Genome Taxonomy
6 tags
Subject Matter
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Group Portrait Both · 99%
The title is Two Women, and the image shows two posed female figures as the dominant subjects of the composition.
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Figures in Nature Visual · 98%
The two figures are situated outdoors among trees, grasses, flowering plants, and a small rural structure.
Visual Qualities
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 90%
Saturated blue, orange, green, and ocher passages provide a vivid color structure across the figures, clothing, vegetation, and background.
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Dense Composition Visual · 93%
The two bodies, garments, arms, vegetation, and background forms fill nearly the entire picture plane, producing a tightly packed composition.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 100%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies the medium as oil on canvas.
Time Periods
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1900 - 1917 Art Metadata · 100%
The catalog dates the work to 1901 or 1902, within the 1900–1917 period.
Source & rights
Paul Gauguin. Two Women. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 3,811 × 3,028 · Metropolitan Museum Of Art · Available