Joan González

Peasant Woman at a Fountain

c.1902

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Artist: Joan González 1868–1908
Original title: Paysanne à la fontaine
Medium: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: Support: 489 x 489 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by Mme Roberta Gonzalez-Richard, the artist's niece 1972
Reference: T01641

Catalogue entry

Joan González 1868-1908

T01641 Paysanne à la Fontaine (Peasant Woman at a Fountain) c.1902

Inscribed 'J. González' b.r.
Gouache on paper, 194 x 194 (48.8 x 48.9)
Presented by Roberta González 1972
Repr: Ronald Alley, The González Gift to the Tate Gallery (London 1974), p.4

The figure is similar in style to those in several pen and ink drawings dated 1902 such as Cerni, pls.335, 337 and 363, the last two of which depict a nude or almost nude girl at a fountain.

Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.300, reproduced p.300