Album Palliere Escenas Americanas Reduccion de Cuadros, aquarelles y bosquejos

Book Description

Buenos Aires: En venta en la casa de los S[eño]res Fusoni H[erna]nos, [1864]. Oblong folio. (12 x 17 3/4 inches). Lithographed throughout, title- page, 52 tinted plates printed by J. Pélvilain. Expertly rebound to style in red morocco-backed red pebble-grained cloth covered boards, the spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat panelled decoration in gilt, the covers with wide outer rule in blind enclosing a thin inner gilt rule, yellow glazed endpapers. A spectacular album of mid-19th century South American images published in Buenos Aires. Extremely rare, no copies in OCLC or RLIN. This album of South American scenes contains fifty-two finely printed lithographic plates, printed in Buenos Aires by J. Pelvilain, after drawings made over a ten year period by [Jean or Juan] León Pallière. The plates include views and portraits of local inhabitants in Argentina (44), Brazil (4), Uruguay (2), Chile (1), and Bolivia (1). Pallière, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1823 to French parents, travelled to France as a young child and eventually studied art there under F. E. Picot. He continued his artistic training both in South America between 1848 and 1850 and in Europe between 1850 and 1855. He then returned to South America, travelling for the next decade in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Bolivia and producing the images found in this volume. The views consist primarily of rural scenes, and many of these images portray local inhabitants in a variety of activities. These illustrations and the other images of the native and mestizo population represent a variety of local types and occupations including indians; rural and urban mestizo laborers (including a milk man and a bread seller); middle and upper class women in a theater gallery and in church; working men in pulperias; black men and women at a market in Bahia; gauchos; soldiers (apparently rural conscripts); and even a surveyor in the countryside. A number of the lithographs focus on life in the country: on the plains, in camp, and at home. One such image, of a couple standing outside a straw house, includes a ten-line romantic poem by R. Gutierrez (the original oil painting of this plate, titled 'Idilio criollo', is now in the Colección Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires). Borba de Moraes p. 648; Palau 211114; cf. León Pallière Diario de Viaje por la America del Sud (Buenos Aires, 1945)

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