Les Femmes Malgaches (Plate 28)

1863

Désiré Charnay

Associated Names
Désiré Charnay

Artist, French, 1828 - 1915

Three individuals are shown standing outdoors in a triangular arrangement. Their torsos are bare and wrapped with patterned cloths around their waists. The individual in the center faces forward while the others face each other. They have short, naturally textured hair. The center figure wears a necklace. There is a wooden building with a large door in the background, and the ground is bare earth.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across center under image in ink: Femmes Malgaches-; vertical along right edge at center in graphite: 28.

Wikidata ID

Q64146576

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