Title Te Pape Nave Nave (Delectable Waters) Creator Paul Gauguin Date Created 1898 Physical Dimensions overall 74 x 95.3 cm (29 1/8 x 37 1/2 in.) framed 90.8 x 111.4 cm (35 3/4 x 43 7/8 in.) Provenance The private collection of Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by 1919 until at least 1935.[1] Acquired 1947 by (Wildenstein & Co., London, New York and Paris); sold 1947 to Leigh B. [1905-1987] and Mary Lasker Block [1904-1981], Chicago,[2] until at least 1964.[3] Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, VA, by 1966;[4] gift 1973 to NGA. [1] The painting was published in Bernheim-Jeune's _L'Art Moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois_ in 1919. It was lent in 1927 by Bernheim-Jeune to _The Classics of Modern Paintings_, at De Hauke & Co., New York, and then published by Bernheim-Jeune in Ars¨¨ne Alexandre, _Paul Gauguin, sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre_ in 1930, and in Bernheim-Jeune's 1935 catalogue, _Quelques tableaux d'Ingres ¨¤ Gauguin_, no. 7, reproduced. [2] See letter dated 18 June 1999 from Wildenstein & Co., in NGA curatorial files. [3] The painting was published as in the Block collection in Wildenstein's 1964 catalogue raisonn¨¦. It was not included in the 20 May 1981 sale of the Block collection held at Sotheby's, New York. [4] Exhibited with Paul Mellon Collection at the National Gallery of Art in 1966. Rights CC0 Medium oil on canvas