Fiona Pardington
Portrait of a life cast of Tou Taloa (left profile, painted), Samoa
Artwork Detail
"Portrait of a life cast of Tou Taloa (left profile, painted), Samoa" is a left profile portrait of the painted plaster life cast that Pierre-Marie Alexandre Dumoutier (1797-1871) made of the Samoan Chief Tou Taloa on the island of Upolu at Samoa during September 1838. Dumoutier was the official artist who accompanied Jules Sébastien César Dumont D'Urville's trans-Pacific voyage of 1837-1840.
- Title
- Portrait of a life cast of Tou Taloa (left profile, painted), Samoa
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 2010
- Medium
- pigment inks on 308gsm Hahnemühle photo rag
- Dimensions
- 1460 x 1100 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Friends of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2011
- Accession no
- 2011/17/2
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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