J Laroque (Artist) Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (After)
Sauvage de la Nouvelle Zelande [Savage Man of New Zealand]
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Artwork Detail
The Quebecois artist, Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, never saw the indigenous people he romantically envisioned in his prints. He based his images on well-known travel accounts and his vivid imagination. This Māori wears a Roman style wrap and striped cummerbund with an elaborate feather headdress put to one side. He appears to live in an igloo-like brick dwelling quite unlike the reality of a Māori whare made of carved wood with a roof thatched with raupo (reed) or nikau fronds.
- Title
- Sauvage de la Nouvelle Zelande [Savage Man of New Zealand]
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1796
- Medium
- etching, aquatint and watercolour
- Dimensions
- 232 x 169 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, The Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest, purchased 1998
- Accession no
- 1998/15/2
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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