Grassset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1818 :Femme des Iles des Amis. J Grasset St Sauveur inv. direx. J Laroque sculpt. [1788]

Grassset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1818 :Femme des Iles des Amis. J Grasset St Sauveur inv. direx. J Laroque sculpt. [1788]
Date
1788
By
Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810; Laroque, J, active 1796
Reference
A-464-031
Description

A full-frontal portrait of a Tongan woman, looking distinctly European with pale skin and fair hair. She is bare-breasted but wears a multi-layered skirt in several colours, a double-stringed necklace and metal wrist and ankle bands, as well as hoop earrings. She has one hand placed on her hip and is possibly performing a dance

The work is likely to be from Grasset de Saint-Sauveur's 'Encyclopedie des voyages ...' published in Paris in 1796

Other Titles - Woman of the Friendly Islands [translation]

Other Titles - Woman of Tonga [translation]

Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).

Physical Description: Hand-coloured aquatint, 205 x 140 mm (plate marks) on laid paper 245 x 180 mm

Provenance: Purchase: Antiquaruan Art, Lower Hutt, April 2014

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Format
1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Ethnographic illustrations, Hand-coloured aquatint, 205 x 140 mm (plate marks) on laid paper 245 x 180 mm, Orientation: Vertical image
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