Faded pastel watercolor of a yellow crucified figure with outstretched arms, a rose and orange landscape, and a bluish figure with bowed head in the lower right.

The Yellow Christ, Female Bather Wading through a Brook

Pale watercolor on card showing a yellow, arms-outstretched crucified figure standing before a sunlit landscape of orange and rose hills and trees. In the lower right, a bluish-violet figure with bowed head kneels at the edge, and faded washes give the whole a soft, muted palette.

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Date: c. 1889
Medium: Salted paper print (extremely faded) toned with watercolor, on cream wove silver printing-out paper, laid down on cream card (recto); albume
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2064 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1903).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Bequest of Elizabeth F. Chapman

19th century post-impressionism 1880s 1889 religious art watercolor landscape crucifixion gauguin bather pastel palette muted colors