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MARIE-JOSEPH-ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE)

Lot 112
20.03.2024 15:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1172941
Lot 112 | MARIE-JOSEPH-ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE)
Estimate value
€ 1 000 – 1 500
MARIE-JOSEPH-ALPHONSE PELLION (GRAY 1796-1868 FRANCE)

Hommes tatoués dansant des îles marquises (Polynésie Française), mars 1819 (recto); Etude deux têtes d’hommes (verso)

inscrit ‘Naturels des Carolines/ dansants. (12 et 13 mars/ 1819)’ (en haut à droite)

graphite, plume et encre brune

19,2 x 13 cm. (7 ½ x 5 1⁄8 in.)





Exhibited

Paris, musée du Quai Branly, Tatoueurs, Tatoués, 2014-2015, p. 295 (catalogue par S. Galliot, P. Bagot).



Inscribed

L. de Freycinet, Voyage autour du monde [...] exécuté sur les corvettes de S. M. ‘l’Uranie’ et ‘la Physicienne’, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, Paris, 1824-1844, pl. 54.



Further details

MARIE-JOSEPH-ALPHONSE PELLION, TATTOOED MEN FROM THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS, FRENCH POLYNESIA, DANCING (RECTO); AND A SKETCH OF TWO HEADS (VERSO), GRAPHITE, PEN AND BROWN INK, INSCRIBED AND DATED 1819

This drawing is an interesting illustration of the collaboration between the artists who took part in the scientific voyage aboard the Uranie. Indeed, Jacques Arago also produced a watercolour of the same subject, but featuring only two tattooed men, sold Christie’s, London, 26 September 2002, lot 71.
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