, 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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The Old Maids, 1889
Paul Gauguin
French, 1848
- 1903
zincograph on yellow wove paper
Printed by Edward Ancourt
45.9 x 62.8 cm; image: 19.2 x 21 cm
Purchased 1975
National Gallery of Canada (no. 18394)
Gauguin based this print on a painting of the same subject he made in December 1888 (Art Institute of Chicago), when he was working with Vincent van Gogh in Arles. Part of the « Volpini Suite » of zincographs, "The Old Maids" shows women in local Provençal dress crossing a public garden.
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