Pallière, León

Album Pallière Escenas Americanas Reduccion de Cuadros, Aquarelles, y Bosquejos. Buenos Aires: En venta en la casa de los S[eño]res Fusoni H[erna]nos, [1864]

Oblong folio. Lithographed title-page, 52 lithographed plates, nearly a💮ll of which tinted, 2 original printed wrappers.🌄 Later half dark blue morocco over blue pebbled cloth boards, boards and spine gilt.

A rare album of lithographs made in Buenos Aires

The fifty-two South American scenes were originally drawn by León Pallière, and then printed as lithographic plates in Buenos Aires by J. Pelvilain. 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 you🧸ng 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 prim꧅arily 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 theatre gallery and in church; working men in pulperias; black men and women at a market in Bahia; gauchos; soldiers (appa💖rently 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.

No copies ♓on OCLC. Originally issued in parts, this copy comes with wrappers printed on colored paper from two of those parts 🐻laid in.

REFERENCE

Borba de Moraes 648; Palau 211114