"1087. Afrique Occidentale - Jeunne Femmes Arabes" (Western Africa - Young Arab Women)
François-Edmond Fortier, French (worked in Dakar, Senegal), 1862 - 1928
about 1900-1906
Photo offset lithograph postcard
Fortier 1087
Overall: 3 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (8.9 × 13.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.18.6
Geography/Culture
Africa, Western Africa, Senegal
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Classification
Photograph
Not on view
Inscription
Printed, in black ink, top center: 1087. - Afrique Occidentale. - Jeunne Femmes Arabes; printed, in black ink, bottom right: Collection Generale Fortier, Dakar Reproduction interdite; stamped, on reverse, in blue ink: Cartes Postales documentaires 19_ / Collection / Louis / HESSENBRUCH No_; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, top center: Aquarellee / Watercolored
Course History
REL 28.04, MES 19.05, WGSS 43.06, Gender in Islam, Zahra Ayubi, Spring 2020
WGST 65.7, Queer Popular Culture, Eng-Beng Lim, Summer 2015
WGST 41.4, Transnational Muslim Feminisms, Zahra. Ayubi, Fall 2014
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
A Space for Dialogue 89, Goddesses, Models, and Prostitutes: An Exploration of the Reclining Female Nude, Olivia Field, Class of 2015, Kathryn Conroy Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 18-August 30, 2015.
Publication History
Olivia Field, A Space for Dialogue 89, Goddesses, Models, and Prostitutes: An Exploration of the Reclining Female Nude, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2015, checklist no. 3.
Provenance
Alexandre Przopiorski, Lyon, France; sold to present collection, 2006.
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