Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777-1804)

Cavalier Malais, Timor

Details

Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777-1804)
Cavalier Malais, Timor
inscribed, 'Timor' (upper right);
pencil, pen and ink, brown and grey wash, unframed
9 5/8 x 11 7/8in. (24.4 x 30.2cm.)

Provenance

as lot 100.

Engraved

by Frères Lambert in F. Péron, Voyage de découvertes au terres australes, etc., Atlas, Paris, 1824, pl. 39.

Lot Essay

Hamy lists a tracing and two small pencil sketches of the same subject by Petit (E.-T. Hamy, L'Oeuvre ethnographique de Nicolas-Martin Petit, dessinateur à bord du Géographe, 1801-1804, L'Anthropologie, 2 (1891), p. 615, nos. 75-7).

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