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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/280/283-13.jpg
Title	Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, detail, left side, two women and statue.
Alternative Title	Where come we? What are we? Whither go we?
Translated Title	D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?
Creator	Gauguin, Paul (French painter and printmaker, 1848-1903)
Date	1897
Cultural Context	French European Western European Tahitian Oceanic Polynesian
Style/Period	Symbolist Post-Impressionist Modern (styles and periods) Modernist
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Primitivism (artistic concept) Allegories (document genre) Allegory (artistic device) Life Figurative art Figures (representations) Women Adults Elderly Old age Nudes (representations) Nudity Profiles (figures) Front views Costume (mode of fashion) Loincloths Bracelets (jewelry) Jewelry Gesture Sitting Leisure Sculpture (visual work) Statues Idols Religious objects Standing Animals Domestic animals Ducks (birds) Birds Goats Livestock Landscapes (representations) Jungles Islands Seas Vegetation Plants (vegetation) Trees Eye-level views Inscriptions Detail views
Subject	Paintings Oil paintings Allegorical paintings Allegories Human life cycle Indigenous peoples Women Adults Older people Nudes Breasts Clothing & dress Bracelets Jewelry Gestures Sitting Leisure Social life Sculpture Idols Religious articles Standing Animals Birds Ducks Goats Livestock Landscapes (Representations) Tropical forests Islands Seas Trees Plants Inscriptions Details
Description	Oil on sackcloth.
Location Depicted	Hiva Oa (French Polynesia) Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) French Polynesia Polynesia Oceania Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)
Material	Oil on canvas Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Canvas
Measurements	55 1/2 x 148 1/4"
Technique	Painting (image-making) Oil painting (technique)
Inscription	Top left corner: D'où Venons Nous/ Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous
Work Type	Oil paintings Paintings Details
Repository	Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
Source	Rewald, John. Paul Gauguin. Great Art of the Ages. New York: Abrams, [1969]. (p.[31])
Rights	Photo/illustration credit/reproduced in Rewald courtesy: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 283-13.jpg
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