Portrait of a life cast of Tou Taloa (left profile, painted), Samoa

Artwork

Portrait of a life cast of Tou Taloa (left profile, painted), Samoa

2010

Artwork Information

"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.

Artist: Fiona Pardington
Iwi/Ethnicity: Ngāi Tahu/Kāi Tahu/MāoriKāti Māmoe/MāoriNgāti Kahungunu/MāoriClan Cameron of Erracht/Scotland
Title: Portrait of a life cast of Tou Taloa (left profile, painted), Samoa
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