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Abraham-Louis Buvelot (1814-1888)
Lot 7

Abraham-Louis Buvelot (1814-1888)

A street scene in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

Closed22 September 2010

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GBP 7,500

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Abraham-Louis Buvelot (1814-1888)
A street scene in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
with inscription 'Peint en 1820 par Buvelot, Sécretaire, au Consulat Suisse de Rio-Janeiro Mexico Vue de L'Eglise di Santa Fédé ou est le Tombeau de Fernand Cortes' on the stretcher, indistinct ownership inscription '. .... Consulat(?) Vevey 1874(?)' on the frame
oil on canvas
9¼ x 12¼in. (23.4 x 31.2cm.)

Specialist note

Buvelot followed his uncle out to Bahia, Brazil, in 1835, and spent 5 years at Bahia (his uncle had a coffee plantation at Leopoldina) before moving to Rio de Janeiro. Little is known of his early work in Brazil, but a group of small pictures, dating from around 1837, and including views of Swiss-related subjects (the factory of the Swiss pioneer in Brazil, Auguste-Frédéric Meuron) might be plausibly given to him, and may be by the same hand as the present picture (see C. Martins, Brasiliana, a collection revealed, Sao Paolo, 2000, pp.88-91). Buvelot returned to Vevey, Switzerland, in 1852.