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Image Reference
Biard03
Source
François-Auguste Biard, Deux Années au Brésil (Paris, 1862), p. 93
Comments
Four women heading various goods, including an umbrella and a basket of fruit; also shows clothing styles. Biard, a French painter, lived in Brazil for about two years, 1858-1860. His published account contains a number of images of slave life, several of which are included on this website. For a detailed study of Biard and his Brazilian sojourn, see Ana Lucia Araujo, Romantisme Tropical (Quebec, 2008).
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