Nicolas-Martin Petit b. 1777

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Petit was the artist for a French voyage to Australia, whose job, according to the eminent scientist Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, was to record 'all that which may be of interest for the history of Man.' His depictions of the Aborigines have an immediacy and directness unlike any previous images of them.
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associate of
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur
1778
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Nicolas Baudin
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child of
née Minglet Marie-Nicole Petit
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associate of
Antoine-Laurent De Jussieu
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associate of
George Riley
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associate of
Péron
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associate of
Thomas Bock
1777
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
François Auguste Péron
1777
Artist (Draughtsman)

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References [<ExternalResource: Marchant, L. & Reynolds, J. (1966), 'Thomas Nicholas Baudin and Louis-Claude de Freycinet', Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. Pike, D., Shaw, A., Clark, M., Nairn, B., Serle, G. and Ward, R. vol 1, Melbourne.>, <ExternalResource: Bonnemains, J., Forsyth, E. & Smith, B. (1988), 'Baudin in Australian Waters', Melbourne.>, <ExternalResource: Hamy, E. (1891), 'L'oeuvre ethnographique de Nicolas-Martin Petit', L'Anthropologie, vol. 2.>, <ExternalResource: Horner, F. (1987), 'The French Reconnaissance', Melbourne.>, <ExternalResource: Mander-Jones, P. (1964), 'The artists who sailed with Baudin and Flinders', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australia), vol. 65.>, <ExternalResource: Plomley, N. (1983), 'The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines', Hobart.>, <ExternalResource: (1807), 'Voyage des Découvertes aux Terres Australes', Paris, p16.>]