Senegal watercolours--Nousveaux, Edouard Auguste.

8 watercolours (visible area from 270 x 200mm. to 313 x 432mm.), each mounted, framed and glazed, some spotting, discoloration and browning

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Nousveaux (1811-1867) was a French artist who spent two to three years in Senegal from late 1842 and on his return exhibited some watercolours at the Salon de Paris. His drawings were used as the basis for illustrations in a number of publications, including the periodical Le Tour du Monde and H. Frey's Côte occidentale d'Afrique: vues, scènes, croquis (Paris, 1890). The later captions on the backs of the frames are as follows: 1. Jeune negresse de Gorée se baignant à la mer Sènègal; 2. [Seated female]; 3. Jeune negresse de St Louis costume de fête, Sènègal; 4. Guerriers du Tassou côte des Graines; 5. Une vue du village de Dixcove, Côte d'Or, 1843, signed "Nousveaux" lower left; 6. Rivière de la Côte d'Or, signed and dated lower right "Nousveaux, 1842"; 7. Groupe d'habitants de St Louis en costume de fête, Sènègal; 8. Fort Hollandais de Chama, Côte d'Or, 1843.