| These are portraits of an Inuit (or Greenlander) couple who were captured by Captain Samuel Hadlock (1792-1829), a New Englander. They were exhibited as exotic curiosities in many European capitals during the 1820s. The French painter and collector de Barde may have been able to sketch the couple during the Paris Exhibition of 1825-1826, or he may have drawn from prints published at the time. Watercolour and gouache
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