Osages: A Small Savage Tribe from North America, in the State of Missouri
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 9 1/16 x 8 7/8 in. (23 x 22.5 cm) sheet: 14 11/16 x 10 1/2 in. (37.3 x 26.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883
Accession Number
83.2.905
Tags
Art Historical Context
This lithograph, titled *Osages: A Small Tribe from North America, the State of Missouri*, a moment of cross-cultural fascination in 182. Created by French artist Louis Léopold Boilly collaboration with lithographer François Séraphin Delpech, it depicts of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe from the Missouri region. Boilly, renowned for his detailed genre scenes and realistic portrayals of everyday life, turned his keen observation to these Indigenous visitors, likely inspired by an Osage delegation that toured Paris around that time, sparking European curiosity about the "New World." ...
About the Artist
Louis Léopold Boilly|Delpech · 1761–1845
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