IMAGE
Rouargue, Emile, ca 1795-1865 :Funerailles d'un chef - Nouvelle Zelande / Rouargue del / Masson sc[ulpt. ca 1838].
- Date
- 1827 - 1834
- By
- Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Rouargue, active 1830s; Masson, active 1830s
- Reference
- A-259-034
- Description
Shows the dead chief wrapped in a blanket and with feathers in his hair, in a sitting position resting against a carved post. In the left foreground, a woman in a loose robe holds her head in a grieving gesture in front of a row of three heads on the ground. Three other bare-breasted women kneel in a semi-circle at the right, one cutting herself on the chest. An elaborately tattooed man in cape and tunic and holding a taiaha, stands at the right pointing to the right out of the picture. A crowd of other mourners stands in the right background.
This French print is derived and imaginatively adapted from Louis de Sainson's 1834 engraving "Scene of mourning in New Zealand" ("Scene de deuil a la Nouvelle Zelande"). There are also similarities to Sainson's 1834 engraving "Funerailles d'un ariki". See Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage pittoresque autour du monde ..." (Paris, 1834) at qR 910.8 DUM Voya.
Other Titles - Scene de deuil a la Nouvelle-Zelande
Other Titles - Funeral for a chief in New Zealand
Other Titles - Funerailles d'un Ariki
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - beneath image - [Names of artist and engraver]
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured on sheet, 165 x 264 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Ethnographic illustrations, Group portraits, Engraving, hand-coloured on sheet, 165 x 264 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-. Rouargue, Emile, ca 1795-1865 :Funerailles d'un chef - Nouvelle Zelande / Rouargue del / Masson sc[ulpt. ca 1838].. Ref: A-259-034. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23065425More information can be found in our terms of use.