IMAGE
LeJeune, Jules Louis :Femmes de l'ile Oualan. A. Chazal [1826]
- Date
- 1823 - 1826
- Reference
- C-082-113
- Description
Two Caroline Island women on a beach. Both have tattoos on their limbs and are wearing a band of woven fabric around their hips. Both also have flowers in their ears. The left hand-woman, who is standing, holds a calabash formed from a large leaf.
Based on an ink drawing by Jules LeJeune, artist with Duperrey during his 1822-1824 visit to the Pacific. This watercolour version was prepared by Chazal and engraved as Plate 52 for L. I. Duperrey's Voyage ... sur la Coquille ... 1822-1825. Histoire du voyage. (Paris, 1826)
Other Titles - Women of Oualan Island. [translation]
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 370 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 250 x 370 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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