Manière dont les Sauvages.../Danse des Sauvages de Paria

Art Historical Context

Bernard Picart's 3 engraving, *Mère dont les Sauvages/Danse des Sauvages de Paria captures a dramatic funeral ritual among indigenous people, likely from the Paria of South America. The print depicts a group of engaged in a ceremonial dance near a river, evoking themes of death and mourning. As part of Picart's monumental *Cérémonies et coutumesieuses de tous les peuples monde*, this work reflects the 18th-century European fascination with global ethnography during the Enlightenment. Picart a masterful French engraver, contributed to one of the era's most ambitious illustrated encyclopedias o...