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Reproductions
of early French renditions of Māori
A
selection
By
Brian
Hooker
Title Tableau des Découvertes du Capne. Cook and de la Pérouse (Tableau of the [peoples] discovered by Captains Cook and La Pérouse)
Artist Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Collective Title Tableaux des Principaux Peuples de l'Europe, de l'Asie, de l'Afrique, de l'Amerique; et les Découvertes des Captaines Cook, La Pérouse, etc (Tableaux of the Principal People of Europe, Asia, Africa, America and the [peoples] discovered by Captains Cook and La Pérouse)
Production Date circa 1798
Medium hand coloured engraving
Size (hxw) 456 x 557mm
Credit Line Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, The Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest, purchased 200
Accession No 2005/11
Curator's Description Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur was born in Montréal in 1757. He was educated in France, where he became a diplomat, serving as French Vice-consul in Hungary and Consul in Cairo. He was also a prolific artist and writer, working on 31 titles in his lifetime. His output ranged
from adventure novels through to ethnographic records of the costumes, cultures and habits of the people of the world.
This large scale engraving was one of five tableaux, printed as part of a publication entitled Tableaux des Principaux Peuples de l’Europe, de l’Asie, de l’Afrique, de l’Amerique; et les Découvertes des Captaines Cook, La Pérouse, etc. Previously Grasset de Saint-Sauveur’s illustrations had consisted
of individual full-length portraits of people in their national dress, usually standing in a briefly described landscape setting. For this publication he adopted a new approach composing a tableau of the people ‘discovered by Cook and La Pérouse’ with a more highly worked landscape in the background.
The resulting work is highly decorative reading like a classical frieze. This reading is enhanced by the decorative border, where festoons have been replaced the sun, tropical birds, fruit, animals, sea creatures, people and a waka. Groups of between two and four figures represent the cultures of the
Pacific basin and are identified by a key at the bottom.
The ‘Habts. de la Zelande (No.2)’ are the second couple from the left in the top row. The figures draw on Grasset de Saint-Sauveur’s earlier depictions of the Sauvagesse and Guerrier (also in the Gallery’s collection, see 1998/15/1 and 4). Never having visited the Pacific, he relied on the illustrated
accounts of explorers, including Captain Cook, often borrowing quite directly. There is also a fair degree of fantasy involved in his representations and technicolour palette, as consideration of the costumes attests. |
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Courtesy
Auckland Museum Library. |
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"Tacouri" The illustration is
Plate 2 in
Julien-Marieb Crozet, Nouveau
voyage
à
la mer
du sud,
commencé sous les
ordres
de M. Marion [ ... ]; & achevé,
après la mo
r de cetofficier,
sous ceux de M. Duc1esmeur.
Cette
relation a été rédigée
d'après
les
plans et journaux de M. Crozet.
On
a joint à ce voyageun
extrait de celui de
M.
de Survilledans les
mêmes
passages. Paris, Barrois l'aÎllé, 1783
Marion Dufresne
set up headquarters
for his
expedition in the Bay of
Islands.
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Courtesy National Library of Australia.[.pic-an10345477
U6009 NK4001 580]
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:
Chefs de la Nouvelle-Zelande"
Two portraits captioned: 1. Toui 2. Autre chef.de l'imprimerie de Remond,
1826] 1 engraving, hand col.
Creator Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841. Lejeune et
Chazal delint.; Ambroise Tardieu sculpt. Date [Paris] : de
l'imprimerie de Remond, 1826] Extent1 print : engraving, hand col. ;
plate Pl. no. 47 of: Voyage autour du monde /
par L.I. Duperrey. authorsLejeune, L. F. Chazal, Antoine,
1793-1854. Duperrey, L. I. (Louis Isidore), 1786-1865. Tardieu, Ambroise, 1788-1841. Chefs de la
(The border has been
added by the editor) |
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Sainson, Louis Auguste de 1800- :Nouvelle-Zelande. 1.2.Vieille
femme et esclave de Wangari. 3.Pako, Chef du Cap Reinga.
4.Tatouage de la Cuisse de Pako. 5.Naturel de Reinga. /de
Sainson pinx[i]t. Maurin lith[ographe]. J. Tastu, Editeur.
Lith. de Lemercier. Pl[ate] 57. [Paris, J. Tastu, 1833].
Reference number: C-010-025
border
Sainson, Louis Auguste de 1800- :Nouvelle-Zelande. 1.2.Vieille
femme et esclave de Wangari. 3.Pako, Chef du Cap Reinga.
4.Tatouage de la Cuisse de Pako. 5.Naturel de Reinga. /de
Sainson pinx[i]t. Maurin lith[ographe]. J. Tastu, Editeur.
Lith. de Lemercier. Pl[ate] 57. [Paris, J. Tastu, 1833].
Reference number: C-010-025
Portraits of Maori from Cape Reinga and Whangarei districts, with
examples of face and thigh tattooing. The portraits include a
facial portrait of Pako, chief of Cape Reinga, along with his
thigh and buttock moko. Also an elderly woman, a slave and
another man
Historical notes
The Astrolabe visited the north of New Zealand in late February and
early March 1827, with North Cape being reached on 7 March.
Notes
Alexander Turnbull Library holds J.S.C. Dumont d'Urville's "Voyage
de la corvette l'Astrolabe...Atlas, vol. 1 (1833) at fRare
910.4 DUM
Inscribed - Recto - beneath image: Nouvelle-Zelande. 1.2.
Vieille femme et esclave de Wangari. 3.Pako, Chef de Cap
Reinga. 4. Tatouage de la Cuisse de Pako. 5.Naturel de Reinga.;
Recto - top right: Pl.57; Recto - bottom left: de Sainson
pinxt. / J. Tastu.
Editeur; Recto - bottom right: Maurin lith. / Lith. de
Lemercier
Other titles
Old woman and slave of Whangarei. Pako chief of Cape Reinga. Native
of Reinga. Thigh tattoo of Pako.
From: Dumont d'Urville, J.S.C. "Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe...Atlas,
vol. 1.
Plate 57.
Other copies available
File PrintIn Drawings & Prints under Artist/Title (DFP-000996)
Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar 1790-1842 - Journeys,
2nd, 1826-1829
Pako Rangati, fl 1827
Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800
Maurin, Antoine, 1793-1860
Tastu, J fl 1828-1833
Lemercier, Alfred Leon, fl 1830s-1840s
Rodewald, Harry M, fl 1950s-1980s
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C-036-026
Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800 :Nouvelle Zelande. Costumes
des naturels du Cap Palliser; costumes des naturels de detroit
de Cook. Lith. de Villain; de Sainson pinx. [Paris: 1833].
Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800 :Nouvelle Zelande. Costumes
des naturels du Cap Palliser; costumes des naturels de detroit
de Cook. Lith. de Villain; de Sainson pinx. [Paris: 1833]
1 colour art print(s). Lithograph (hand-col.)
152 x 177 mm and 173 x 205 mm. Horizontal image.
Shows two images: the one at left has a
pair of feathered-cloaked figures in the foreground, and a
group of four figures in the background. The right hand image
shows four male figures, one of whem carries a child on his
back. Their clothing varies from cloaks to short skirts
From: Dumont d'Urville. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe,
1826-1827-1828-1829. Paris: 1833.
Atlas 1, plate 41, but no plate number.
Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842
Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800
Villain, de fl 1833
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