Harvard Art Museums > 2023.180: Garifuna Peoples of St. Vincent [Caraibs of St. Vincents] Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Garifuna Peoples of St. Vincent [Caraibs of St. Vincents] (Agostino Brunias) , 2023.180,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/377132. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2023.180 People Agostino Brunias, Italian (Rome, Italy 1730 - 1796 Roseau, Dominica) Title Garifuna Peoples of St. Vincent [Caraibs of St. Vincents] Other Titles Former Title: Caribs of St. Vincents Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date c. 1765-1790 Culture Italian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/377132 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 29.7 × 23 cm (11 11/16 × 9 1/16 in.) framed: 34.8 × 28.7 cm (13 11/16 × 11 5/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks label: verso of frame, top left, yellow sticker with black printed text: 184189 / 2 label: verso of frame, lower left, yellow sticker with black printed text: 184189 / 2 inscription: verso of frame, top, graphite: No 2 [visible under IR] inscription: verso, top strainer: [graphite, later hand?:] Native [black ink:] Caraibs of / St. Vincents. label: verso, top strainer, round white sticker: [handwritten, blue ink:] 2-14-22 [printed:] PHOTO / DONE inscription: verso, top strainer, graphite: No 2 [visible under IR] label: verso, bottom strainer, handwritten [or printed?], black ink: [torn] Caraibs of St. Vincents / Brunias pinxit inscription: verso, upper left of canvas, black ink: C [probably "araibs", obscured by label, visible as bleed] label: verso, center of canvas, handwritten, black ink: Painted by Brunias, / an eminent French Artist. / Presented by John Gardner, Esq., of Pownalboro', [graphite, later hand?:] Me. / in 1790. / This is one of six Paintings by Brunias, / representing the People of different color in some of / the Islands in the West Indies. Provenance Recorded Ownership History John Gardiner (or Gardner) (1737-1793), Pownalborough, Maine, by 1790, gift; to Harvard College Library, 1790, deposited; at Peabody Museum, 1890, transferred (1); to Harvard Art Museums, 2023 (1) This painting was missing from the Peabody Museum by 1975 and returned to the museum in 2021. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (transfer from Harvard College Library), gift of John Gardiner, 1790 Accession Year 2023 Object Number 2023.180 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Harvard Corporation, Meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University Archives, November 15, 1790)., p. 303 [https://nrs.lib.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.arch:10884876?n=359 (accessed February 23, 2023)] Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 27 in Ethan W. Lasser's "Harvard's Teaching Cabinet" Mia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the art of Agostino Brunias, Manchester University Press (Manchester, UK, 2018), pp. 14, 175 note 1 Related Works 2023.182 Agostino Brunias Francophone Women of Color and a Young Attendant, Dominica [French Mulatresses of Dominica in their Proper Dress] Paintings 2023.183 Agostino Brunias Two Women of Color, Dominica [French Mulatress of Dominica and a Negro Woman in their Proper Dress] Paintings 2023.184 Agostino Brunias Purchasing Fruit [A French Mulatress Purchasing Fruit from a Negro Wench] Paintings 2023.179 Agostino Brunias Women of Color Bathing and a Voyeur [Mulatresses and Negro Woman Bathing] Paintings 2023.181 Agostino Brunias Indigenous Kalinago of St. Vincent [Aboriginal Caraibs of St. Vincents] Paintings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu