Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria Exhibition labels & didactics - National Gallery of Victoria
94 Baron François GÉRARD French 1770–1837 Half-length portrait of Napoleon I Portrait en buste de Napoléon I c. 1805 oil on canvas Napoleonmuseum Thurgau, Schloss und Park Arenenberg, Salenstein Acquisition, 1971 © 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.
THE BAUDIN EXPEDITION AND THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLES The Baudin voyage to the Terres Australes was the first French scholarly expedition to place human observation among its primary objectives. Its detailed instructions came from the Société des Observateurs de l’Homme, or Society for the Observation of Mankind (1799–1805). Work was undertaken under the supervision of Francois Péron, the expedition’s naturalist, who guided the artists Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit. Péron led the zoological studies, oversaw the preparation of specimens and taught Lesueur how to observe each animal in order to accurately portray its anatomical features and lifelike traits. Petit was responsible for drawing Indigenous peoples, his work being also partly shared by Péron, who chose the sitters and the actions to be portrayed. Péron also critiqued Petit’s first sketches, with a view to their being worked up into more finished drawings. The Baudin expedition had only brief periods of contact with Australia’s Indigenous peoples, due to the amount of sailing time required for the mapping of the country’s coasts. Nevertheless, supervised by Péron, Petit and Lesueur were able to draw grave sites, small sailing craft, everyday objects and various ceremonies (such as customary dances). © 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. 95
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Baron François GÉRARD<br />
French 1770–1837<br />
Half-length portrait <strong>of</strong> Napoleon I<br />
Portrait en buste de Napoléon I<br />
c. 1805<br />
oil on canvas<br />
Napoleonmuseum Thurgau, Schloss und Park Arenenberg, Salenstein<br />
Acquisition, 1971<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.