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拍品專文
For a study for the present subject and for a variant see Diener, PB-D-206, -208 and -209, and P-O-20. Diener dates the present canvas to 1843.
'In the late colonial period it became the custom for Lima's elites to take holidays by the sea. The custom became more generalized in the course of the nineteenth century ... . Lima's seaside resorts are located on the top of sandy cliffs (barrancos), which meant that until modern times access to the beaches was difficult, though Barranco itself had a funicular. A feature of the local ecology were the trickles of water which filtered through the cliffs into beachside caves, where first fishermen and later bathers would shower after coming out of the sea, and Chorrillos derives its name ("trickles") from that phenomenon. An effect of this filtration was that vegetation grew on the cliffs, and as a result this stretch of coast received its name the Costa Verde (Green Coast). ... The fashionable resort of the nineteenth century was Chorrillos. It was originally an Indian fishing village and when its first church was established in the late seventeenth century it was dedicated to St Peter, the patron saint of fishermen. ... By the 1840s Chorrillos had become a flourishing holiday resort, and the local indigenous community found a new source of income by providing services to visitors. They built rustic houses which they rented out to holiday-makers and supplied and guided mules to take bathers down the cliffs to the beach. Another of their services is illustrated in one of Pancho Fierro's watercolours [and in Rugendas's picture here], where a young bare-chested Indian, acting as a bañador (bathing attendant), holds a lady's hand as she timidly ventures into the sea. ...' (J. Higgins, op. cit., pp.200-202)
'In the late colonial period it became the custom for Lima's elites to take holidays by the sea. The custom became more generalized in the course of the nineteenth century ... . Lima's seaside resorts are located on the top of sandy cliffs (barrancos), which meant that until modern times access to the beaches was difficult, though Barranco itself had a funicular. A feature of the local ecology were the trickles of water which filtered through the cliffs into beachside caves, where first fishermen and later bathers would shower after coming out of the sea, and Chorrillos derives its name ("trickles") from that phenomenon. An effect of this filtration was that vegetation grew on the cliffs, and as a result this stretch of coast received its name the Costa Verde (Green Coast). ... The fashionable resort of the nineteenth century was Chorrillos. It was originally an Indian fishing village and when its first church was established in the late seventeenth century it was dedicated to St Peter, the patron saint of fishermen. ... By the 1840s Chorrillos had become a flourishing holiday resort, and the local indigenous community found a new source of income by providing services to visitors. They built rustic houses which they rented out to holiday-makers and supplied and guided mules to take bathers down the cliffs to the beach. Another of their services is illustrated in one of Pancho Fierro's watercolours [and in Rugendas's picture here], where a young bare-chested Indian, acting as a bañador (bathing attendant), holds a lady's hand as she timidly ventures into the sea. ...' (J. Higgins, op. cit., pp.200-202)