("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)
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- 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)
- Series/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 (French, Paris 1848–1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands)
- Date: 1889
- 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
- Object Number: 22.82.2(1)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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