Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
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Jean-Baptiste LEMOYNE French 1704–78 Portrait medallion of Louis XV 1748 marble, gesso, gilt and parcel-gilt wood National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1973 E1-1973 On 30 March 1772, at Dirk Hartog Island in Shark Bay on the coast of Western Australia, Louis François Marie Aleno de Saint Aloüarn (1738–72) buried a parchment claiming possession of Australia’s western coastline for France in the name of Louis XV, King of France. In the same year another French mariner, Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne (1724–72), made the first European contact with Tasmania’s Aboriginal people. Saint Aloüarn and Marion Dufresne were the first French explorers to set foot on Australian soil. © COPYRIGHT This document remains the property of the National Gallery of Victoria and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation. 3
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Jean-Baptiste LEMOYNE<br />
French 1704–78<br />
Portrait medallion <strong>of</strong> Louis XV<br />
1748<br />
marble, gesso, gilt and parcel-gilt wood<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong>, Melbourne<br />
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1973 E1-1973<br />
On 30 March 1772, at Dirk Hartog Island in<br />
Shark Bay on the coast <strong>of</strong> Western Australia,<br />
Louis François Marie Aleno de Saint Aloüarn<br />
(1738–72) buried a parchment claiming<br />
possession <strong>of</strong> Australia’s western coastline<br />
for France in the name <strong>of</strong> Louis XV, King <strong>of</strong><br />
France. In the same year another French<br />
mariner, Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne<br />
(1724–72), made the first European contact<br />
with Tasmania’s Aboriginal people.<br />
Saint Aloüarn and Marion Dufresne were<br />
the first French explorers to set foot on<br />
Australian soil.<br />
© COPYRIGHT<br />
This document remains the property <strong>of</strong> the <strong>National</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Victoria</strong> and must be returned upon request. Reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited without written authorisation.<br />
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