Title: ("Leda") Design for a Plate: Shame on Those Who Evil Think (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) ; cover illustration for the "Volpini Suite" entitled Lithographic Drawings (Dessins lithographiques)
Object type: Print
Date: 1889
Portfolio: Dessins lithographiques: suite of ten lithographs on zinc, sometimes called "the Volpini Suite" because they were shown " sur demande" "dans le local de M. Volpini au Champ-de-Mars" during the Exposition Universelle of 1889 (probably beginning June 10, the opening at Volpini's of L'Exposition de Peintures du Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste"
Artist:  Paul Gauguin 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Zincograph, colored by hand with watercolor and gouache on chrome yellow wove paper; mounted on marbled paper applied to millboard (cover of print portfolio, trimmed)
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 15/16 x 10 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1922
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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