Positive-cut full-length silhouette by Auguste Edouart showing a man in an interior scene. Figure is shown in a profile view and holds a paper in his left hand and is pointing with his right hand. Framed.
silhouettes
watercolor (paint)
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Silhouette
Auguste Edouart, a French trained artist who traveled along America's eastern seaboard, produced thousands of silhouettes between 1839 and 1845. Credited with being the first to apply the term silhouette to this type of portraiture, Edouart specialized in family and conversational groupings. He usually cut full-length figures, often placing them against a lightly sketched interior or landscape.
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Edouart, Auguste (Artist)
12 7/8 x 8 7/8 x 13/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.1601
New York state (United States)
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