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Tableau of Indian Faces

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Date

1811-ca. 1813

Artist

Attributed to John Lewis Krimmel (1786-1821)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12726

Description

In 1809 Krimmel immigrated to Philadelphia, where he trained as an artist. In 1812 he was commissioned by Pavel Petrovich Svinin to create fourteen watercolors for Svinin’s travel account "A Picturesque Voyage in North America" (1815). An engraving after this watercolor prefaces the chapter on American Indians. Like Svinin, Krimmel probably never observed any American Indians from life. Many of the likenesses that crowd this composition are borrowed from works by Benjamin West, most notably "The Death of General Wolfe" (1770; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) and "William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians" (1771–72; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). Krimmel was also inspired by the montage-like format of William Hogarth’s print "Characters and Caricaturas" (1743). Medium: watercolor, black chalk, gum arabic, and gouache on white laid paper.
Additional Makers: Formerly attributed to - Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787/88–1839)

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CC0 1.0

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Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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