Artist/photographer: Eugène Brussaux. He was an ethnographer and a photographer. In 1906 Eugene Brussaux participated in the African expedition known as Mission Henri Moll.
Title: Une vanneuse de mil, a Lere. [A millet winnower from Lere]. Also known under the titles The African Venus and Eré village, Moundan Woman.
Dimensions: Image 10 6/8" (270 mm) x 7 1/2" (190 mm). Mat 13 1/2" x 10 2/8".
Published: L'Illustration, Avril 20, 1907, p. 253. Aux confins de notre empire africain.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101080466277&view=1up&seq=7
Reproduced in bronze: Ernest Guilbert (1848-?). Vanneus de Mil. Barbedienne, 1907.
Date: 1906.
Material and Techniques: Silver gelatin print on paper. The mat of the period.
Condition: good.
Reference:
Selected prints from Adnan Sezer’s exhibition at Daniel Blau, London, 2015. No. 8.
http://adnan-sezer-gallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Catalogue4_Hair.pdf
Treasures of the collections of the French Geographic Societe. Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Exhibition catalog. Paris 2007.
http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/grand/069.htm
Olivier Loiseaux, Gilles Fumey, Freddy Langer. Die Entdeckung der Welt. Prestel, 2019.
https://www.randomhouse.de/leseprobe/Die-Entdeckung-der-Welt/leseprobe_9783791385914.pdf