Leon Palliere

PALLIERE, Jean Leon (1823-1887): Album Palliere Escenas Americanas Reduccion de Cuadros, aquarelles y bosquejos.

Buenos Aires: En venta en la casa de los S[eno]res Fusoni H[erna]nos, [1864]. Oblong folio. (12 x 17 3/4 inches). Lithographed throughout, title- page, 52 tinted plates printed by J. Pelvilain. Expertly rebound to style in red morocco-backed red pebble-grained cloth covered boards, the spine in five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with repeat panelled decoration in gilt, the covers with wide outer rule in blind enclosing a thin inner gilt rule, yellow glazed endpapers. A spectacular album of mid-19th century South American images published in Buenos Aires. Extremely rare, no copies in OCLC or RLIN. This album of South American scenes contains fifty-two finely printed lithographic plates, printed in Buenos Aires by J. Pelvilain, after drawings made over a ten year period by [Jean or Juan] Leon Palliere. The plates include views and portraits of local inhabitants in Argentina (44), Brazil (4), Uruguay (2), Chile (1), and Bolivia (1). Palliere, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1823 to French parents, travelled to France as a young child and eventually studied art there under F. E. Picot. He continued his artistic training both in South America between 1848 and 1850 and in Europe between 1850 and 1855. He then returned to South America, travelling for the next decade in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Bolivia and producing the images found in this volume. The views consist primarily of rural scenes, and many of these images portray local inhabitants in a variety of activities. These illustrations and the other images of the native and mestizo population represent a variety of local types and occupations including indians; rural and urban mestizo laborers (including a milk man and a bread seller); middle and upper class women in a theater gallery and in church; working men in pulperias; black men and women at a market in Bahia; gauchos; soldiers (apparently rural conscripts); and even a surveyor in the countryside. A number of the lithographs focus on life in the country: on the plains, in camp, and at home. One such image, of a couple standing outside a straw house, includes a ten-line romantic poem by R. Gutierrez (the original oil painting of this plate, titled 'Idilio criollo', is now in the Coleccion Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires). Borba de Moraes p. 648; Palau 211114; cf. Leon Palliere Diario de Viaje por la America del Sud (Buenos Aires, 1945)

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PALLIERE, Jean Leon. Album Palliere. Escenas Americanas. Reduccion de Cuadros, aquarelles y bosquejos. Buenos Ayres, En venta en la casa de los S.res Fusoni H.nos, ca. 1850. Oblong folio. 52 beautifully lithographed plates on coloured background, lithographed by J. Pelvilain after designs by Juan Leon Palliere. Contemporary green morocco, gold-tooled spine, gilt triple fillet on covers with gilt title on front cover.
Illustrations [Lithography],Views, Brazil, Chile, America [South]

(1) l. 52 plates. <I>Palau 211114; Borba de Moraes II, p. 648 ("very rare album"); not in Sabin.</I>Very rare and beautiful album containing 52 lithographs of Argentina (44), Brazil (4), Chili (2), Bolivia (1) and Uruguay (1). Among others: Desembarque con Rio Bajo (Buenos-Aires); Lechero y panadero (Buenos-Aires); La Portena en el tempo (Buenos-Aires); La pulperia (Campana de Buenos-Aires); entrada de la bahia de Rio de Janeiro (Brasil); un mercado en bahia (Brasil); rio Paranagua (Brazil); cargueros de yerba mate (Paranagua. Brasil); las quebradas de Valparaiso (Chile); cordillera de los Andes (Paso de Uspallata a Santa Rosa de Chile); caravana en el desierto de Atacama, cordillera de los Andes (Bolivia).Leon Palliere Grandjean Ferreira (or Pailliere) (1823-1887) was born in Rio de Janeiro from French parents. He came to France at the age of 7, and was the student of Picot and Lenepveu. At the age of 25, he returned to Brazil where he went to the Academia Nacional de Belas Artes and later to Rome.Fine copy.

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Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, [ Ivo Mesquita, Jose Americo Motta Pessanha, Mauro Meiches, Maria Alice Milliet de Oliveira, Belmiro Barbosa de Almeida, Jose Ferraz Almeida Junior, Henrique Alvim Correa, Rodolfo Amoedo, Joao Batista da Costa, Henrique Bernadelli, Jose Maria Oscar Rodolfo Bernardelli, Rodolfo Chambelland, Anita Malfatti, Virgilio Mauricio, Vitor Meirelles de Lima, Jean Leon Palliere Grandjean Ferreira, Pedro Americo de Figueiredo e Melo, Oscar Pereira da Silva, Eliseu D'angelo Visconti, Joao Zeferino da Costa ]: O Desejo Na Academia : 1874 - 1916, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Governo de Sao Paulo, 1991
Drawing, Painting

pictorial wrappers 25 x 22 cm.; sewn bound; color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held December 14, 1991 - March 15, 1992. Essays by Ivo Mesquita, Jose Americo Motta Pessanha, Mauro Meiches and Maria Alice Milliet de Oliveira. Artists include Belmiro Barbosa de Almeida, Jose Ferraz Almeida Junior, Henrique Alvim Correa, Rodolfo Amoedo, Joao Batista da Costa, Henrique Bernadelli, Jose Maria Oscar Rodolfo Bernardelli, Rodolfo Chambelland, Anita Malfatti, Virgilio Mauricio, Vitor Meirelles de Lima, Jean Leon Palliere Grandjean Ferreira, Pedro Americo de Figueiredo e Melo, Oscar Pereira da Silva, Eliseu D'angelo Visconti and Joao Zeferino da Costa. Includes biographies of each artist and exhibition checklist. Text in Portuguese. 130 pp. Very Good. Withdrawn library copy with gift plate, spine sticker and other library markings. This copy appears to be unread.

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