Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
The parenthesis undoes the title
The first half of this title reads as an angelic subject and the second half withdraws it: the sitter is a named woman who kept an inn. Angèle is her given name. Of the 224 titles in this catalogue, 55 contain the letters of angel only inside another word, and two of those are this name. The record's own parenthesis is what makes the case clear, which is why it is quoted rather than trimmed.
What the record holds
The catalogue dates the work to 1889 and gives Paul Gauguin, filed as French, with no style term recorded. The recorded dimensions are 92 x 73 cm. The measured colour family is blue. The location on record is Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
Portrait tags, no religious tag
The subject tags on this entry are portrait categories only. There is no religious classification, no mythological one, and no style term at all in the record — only a date, a nationality and a location. A catalogue built on title matching will always pull in entries like this, and the useful response is to say plainly what the record contains. This is one of three works here recorded at the Musée d'Orsay.
Sources
4 references- Gauguin, Paul René — Getty ULAN
Norwegian painter and woodcutter, 1911-1976
- Paul Gauguin — Wikipedia
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movem
- La belle Angèle — Wikidata
description: painting by Paul Gauguin; inception: 1889-01-01; dimensions: 92 × 73 cm; collection: Musée d'Orsay
- The Beautiful Angel — Wikipedia
The Beautiful Angel (La Belle Angèle) is an 1889 painting by Paul Gauguin, now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Its title derives from a nickname for its subject, Angélique Marie Satre (1868-1932). She was one of three famous innkeepers in Po
