The artist carried in a sillero over the Chiapas from Palenque to Ocosingo, Mexico
Oil on panel
19 ⅜ × 16 ⅜ inches · 493 × 415 mm
Signed Waldeck, lower left
Painted circa 1833
Collections
Jean-Frédéric, Baron de Waldeck;
Valerian S. Rybar;
The Manhattan Galleries, New York;
Private collection, USA.
Exhibitions
Paris, Salon de 1870, no. 2929 ‘Voyage de l’auteur à travers les monts de la chaîne Tremblatique de Chiapas (Amérique centrale), de Palenqué a Octotzinco; ruines les plus anciennes de cette province des Tzendales’.
Literature
Hugh Honour, The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time, New York, 1975, p.179, illustrated;
Esther Pasztory, Jean-Frédéric Waldeck: Artist of Exotice Mexico, Albuquerque, 2010, p.25.