DrawingsFrench19th century
Head of a Breton Peasant Girl
c. 1889
Artists
Paul GauguinArtist
Dimensions
22.4 × 20 cm (8 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Provenance
[Charles Vignier, Paris] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, by 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965
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