Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PRINTS.) Delpech, Francois, lithographer; after Louis Boilly. Osages: Peuplade Sauvage de l'Amerique Septentrionale, dans l'Etat de Missouri. Hand-colored lithograph, 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches; tack holes in corners, faint ink spotting in lower right corner, mount remnants on verso. Paris, 1827
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Kishagashugah, depicted on the right, was an Osage chief inspired by a tradition that his ancestor had visited Paris. He brought a party of five other Osages to meet King Charles X in 1827. This is one of a pair of group portraits done to commemorate their visit. Also depicted are Grétomih (left) and Minckchatahooh (below). 3 copies in WorldCat.