Collection Highlights
Four Portraits of North American Indians; verso: sketch of brave riding a horse and shooting a bow and arrow
1859
1941.1209
Oil on gray marbleized prepared heavy textured paper
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"Savage" Chief (Osage Warrior [after St. Memin])
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Title
"Savage" Chief (Osage Warrior [after St. Memin])
Date
c. 1811-13
Medium
Watercolor, graphite, charcoal, and brown ink on an oval sheet laid on larger sheet
Dimensions
Overall: 7 7/8 x 6 in. ( 20 x 15.2 cm )
mat: 14 x 11 in. ( 35.6 x 27.9 cm )
Description
Portrait
Credit Line
Purchase
Object Number
1953.213
Marks
inscription: lower, ink: "Sauvage chef"
inscription: upper right: "43"
Inscriptions
Inscribed at lower center in brown ink: "Savage chef"
Gallery Label
This portrait was copied by the baroness from an uninscribed watercolor and chalk study (6 3/8 x 8 1/4) by Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787/8-1839), a Russian artist who served as secretary to the Russian consul-general in the United States from 1811 to 1813, in the Drawings Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art.