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Artist unknown :Femmes de la Nouvelle-Zelande. [Paris?, ca 1835?]
Date: 1825 - 1835
Reference: A-259-037
Description: A pastiche, or composite picture. Shows (contrary to the title information) a Maori man, woman and naked child in the foreground. The woman wears only a loincloth, and carries a bowl on her head, steadying it with her left hand. She has some sparse tattooing on her chest. She resembles portraits of female figures from the Caroline Islands as drawn by Lejeune and Chazal. The Maori man wears a full-length cloak and tunic, holds a ritual adze, and has a mere suspended from his belt. He wears the moko and his hair is in the style drawn by Lejeune for profile portraits of Maori men. In the left background is the arched rock of Mercury Bay as drawn originally by Sydney Parkinson. The child, resembling a romping putto, is seen from the rear. In the right background behind the woman, a group of figures stand in a canoe which is modelled on Lejeune and Chazal's engraving ["Pirogue des habitants de la Nouvelle-Zelande"], Plate 45 in Duperrey's "Voyage autout du monde sur la corvette La Coquille ..." (Paris, 1826). Presumably disbound from a French popular publication about South Sea voyages, of the same type as Domeny de Rienzi's "Oceanie" (1835-36). Other Titles - Women of New Zealand Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 99 x 155 mm, on sheet.