Esclave porte du laid au Bazard, Timor

The same figure recurs in Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde, etc., Atlas Historique, Paris, 1825, pl. 21. This plate of a market scene in Coupang was engraved by Romel from a drawing by Garnier after Pellion (Pellion's original watercolour was in the Freycinet collection in 1962) and indicates that Freycinet's artists on his voyage of 1817-20 had access to a group of works by Petit from Baudin's voyage.

For the attribution on grounds of style (the thin legs) and presentation (the size of the sheet, the black lines which frame the portrait and the pencil inscriptions) see J. Bonnemains, E. Forsyth and B. Smith (eds.), Baudin in Australian Waters, Melbourne, 1988, p. 165, no. 20029.1 (Portrait of an Aborigine, standing).