Nègresses après le Travail. Travailleur do Matto (Fòrêt).
Victor Frond photog _ Chapagne lith. Imp Lemercier r. de Seine Paris. [n.d., c.1859.] Two tinted lithographs on one sheet. Sheet 270 x 410mm (10½ x 16"). Repaired tear between images. Two images: on the left three black women slaves rest after harvestring maize; on the right a man stands with a bundle tied to his hoe. The images are based on photographs by Jean-Victor Frond (1821-81), a French photographer and painter who owned a studio in Rio de Janeiro 1858-62, and published in ''Brazil Pittoresco", a four volume study of Brazilian life by Charles Ribeyrolles.
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