JULES MARIE ARMAND DE CUVELIER

Portrait and costume studies, Siberia, circa 1896

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JULES MARIE ARMAND DE CUVELIER
Portrait and costume studies, Siberia, circa 1896
Thirty-two gelatin silver prints, sizes from 7 x 4½ in. to 9¼ x 7 in. or the reverse, the majority titled in Russian in pencil, several inscribed in French and a few dated in ink on verso. (32)

出版

Daney, Le Transsibérien, p. 37 (illus.)

拍品专文

A study of the Votyak or Udmurt people, one of the ethnic groups in Russia, living around the upper Volga and in the Urals. Frontal or profile portraits in front of a plain board backdrop (see illus.), in a style associated with an anthropological approach, which, at the time, was considered objective. The women display layers of woven cloth and some have elaborate cone-shaped headdresses with jewellery made from coins. Also included is a group portrait in front of a log cabin.

Jules Marie Armand de Cuvelier de Cuverville was a marine officer and ethnologist who was sent to Siberia by the French Ministry of Public Instruction in 1895 to undertake a scientific mission.