"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: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2006.18.6
Geography
Place Made: Senegal, Western Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
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
HIST 7.2, Harem: European Imaginations and Ottoman Realities, Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Katherine Hart, Amelia Kahl, Spring 2012
HIST 66, AAAS 15, History of Africa since 1800, Naaborko Sackeyfio, Spring 2013
WGST 41.4, Transnational Muslim Feminisms, Zahra. Ayubi, Fall 2014
WGST 65.7, Queer Popular Culture, Eng-Beng Lim, Summer 2015
REL 28.04, MES 19.05, WGSS 43.06, Gender in Islam, Zahra Ayubi, Spring 2020
Exhibition History
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.
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.
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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