Caraïben Indians at the river side by Hendrik Samuel Schouten

Caraïben Indians at the river side by Hendrik Samuel Schouten

Caraïben Indians at the river side by Hendrik Samuel Schouten

Caraïben Indians at the river side by Hendrik Samuel Schouten

Indios Caraïben a la orilla del río 1809

Hendrik Samuel Schouten

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51 ⨯ 69 ⨯ 20 cm
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Sobre la obra de arte
An unique wooden diorama. Painted papier-mâché, twigs and dried moss.

A unique diorama of Caraïben Indians at the river side. Signed on a label left under, “Geboetzeerd in Jagtlust” door Hendrik Schouten in Surinaame 1809

This is the only known diorama by Hendrik Schouten. He became a planter and inherited the Jagtlust plantation from his grandfather Samuel Loske. His older brother Gerrit Schouten (1779-1839) became the well-known artist who made over forty diorama’s, many now in museum collections in the Netherlands and Surinam, and numerous botanical and zoological watercolours of Surinam, most of them now in the Royal Horticultural Society in London.
The earliest known diorama by Gerrit Schouten is dated 1810, so one year after this diorama by Hendrik. It is tempting to assume that this first and only diorama by his younger brother was the occasion that started Gerrit to make diorama’s. Gerrit Schouten’s diorama’s of Indian camps differ from this one in that Hendrik also used natural materials such as moss and small twigs while Gerrit made everything of papier-mâché, Hendrik’s figures are flatter than Gerrit’s. Gerrit’s diorama’s of Indians’ camps are always viewed from the river towards the camp and his figures are almost always facing the observer while in this diorama most figures, together with the observer, look towards the river.

The present diorama is described and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Gerrit Schouten (1779-1839), botanische tekeningen en diorama’s uit Suriname, Clazien Medendorp 1999, p. 134-135 and was included in the exhibitions in Het Tropenmuseum Amsterdam and Het Surinaams museum Paramaribo in 1999.
Sobre el artista
Hendrik Samuel Schouten nació en Amsterdam y vivió su vida en la plantación Jagtlust Paramaribo en Surinam, donde era plantador. Fue un miembro importante y literario holandés de la sociedad honoraria de De Surinaamse Lettervrienden. Schouten hizo un diorama tridimensional único que representa a los indios caribeños en su entorno natural en el río. Los indios exponen de una manera que parece muy real, el trabajo incluso está entrelazado con ramitas y musgo seco. Este es el único diorama conocido de Hendrik Schouten. Su hermano mayor Gerrit Schouten (1779-1839) se convirtió en un artista conocido, que hizo más de cuarenta dioramas.

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