, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Human Miseries, 1889
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848
- 1903
zincograph in brown on yellow wove paper
44.9 x 30.3 cm; image: 28.3 x 22.6 cm
Purchased 1975
National Gallery of Canada (no. 18429)
The pose of the woman seen here first appeared in a painting called "Grape Harvest" or "Human Misery" (Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen), made in November 1888 while the artist was working with Vincent van Gogh in Arles. The subject recalls the classic image of depression seen in Albrecht Dürer's famous engraving "Melancholia I" (1514). In 1889 Gauguin produced a variation of the pose in which the woman's mouth is open and her head is bent to one side, said to have been inspired by an ancient Peruvian mummy, one of the highlights of the Musée d'Ethnographie, recently installed in the Palais de Trocadéro. The print is from the "Volpini Suite".
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