Tahitian Women Bathing

Colors in this work

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Date: 1892
Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions: 43 1/4 × 35 1/4 in. (109.9 × 89.5 cm) Framed: 55 1/8 × 46 7/16 in. (140 × 118 cm)
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #875510 · 23%

Pine Needle · Green family · #48682E · 18%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #0B2A33 · 17%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #7E361A · 6%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #464514 · 6%

Press Black · Black family · #06171B · 6%

Pine Needle · Green family · #222F1E · 6%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #91922D · 5%

Ochre Kiln · Orange family · #A46400 · 3%

Pine Needle · Green family · #1C5633 · 3%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #0B1221 · 2%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #B5A977 · 2%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #515A4B · 2%

Press Black · Black family · #11100B · 1%

Lampblack · Black family · #0E0402 · <1%

Granite Face · Gray family · #587174 · <1%

Celandine Tempera · Green family · #859D00 · <1%

Indigo Banner · Blue family · #00456F · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

12 tags

Nude Both · 99%

The catalog lists Female Nudes as a subject, and multiple nude female figures are visibly represented.
Bathers Both · 99%

The catalog lists Bathing as a subject, and several figures are shown in and around a body of water.
Figure from the Back (Rückenfigur) Visual · 99%

The principal foreground figure is prominently shown from behind, with her back and long dark hair facing the viewer.
Figures in Nature Visual · 94%

The figures are situated within a natural environment of water, grassy ground, and vegetation.
Waterscapes Visual · 94%

A dark blue, wave-marked body of water occupies much of the upper and left portions of the scene and surrounds several figures.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%

The composition uses strongly saturated orange, green, blue, red, and yellow passages.
Flatness Visual · 93%

Forms are simplified into broad color areas with limited naturalistic modeling and compressed spatial depth.
Patterns Visual · 91%

Patterned red, yellow, blue, and white textile-like forms introduce repeated motifs and decorative surface rhythms.

Painting Both · 99%

The catalog classifies the work as a painting, and the image visibly presents a painted composition on a framed support.
Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

The catalog specifies the medium as oil on paper, laid down on canvas.
Work on Paper Metadata · 99%

The catalog identifies the support as paper laid down on canvas.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to 1892, placing it within the nineteenth century.

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