'Poedua, the Daughter of Orio' (b. circa 1758 - d. before 1788)
1777
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- National Maritime Museum, BHC2957
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Portrait of Poedooa, the 19-year-old daughter of Orio, chief of the Haamanino district of Raiatea (Ulietea), one of the Society Islands neighbouring Tahiti. One of the earliest images of a Polynesian woman produced by a European painter.
