A print reproducing a portrait of a Creole woman wearing a tignon, painted ca. 1840.
This work by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, the leading portraitist in New Orleans from the late 1830s through the 1850s, depicts a subject in a tignon, a headdress rooted in West African tradition and central to Creole fashion among free and enslaved women of color in Louisiana and the Caribbean. Wearers transformed these headscarves into expressions of identity through bright colors, patterns, and intricate wrapping.
- 10 × 12.84 in. image, 11 × 14 in. print
- Printed on Archival paper, unframed
- Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, Artist
- © The Historic New Orleans Collection
A print reproducing a portrait of a Creole woman wearing a tignon, painted ca. 1840.
This work by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, the leading portraitist in New Orleans from the late 1830s through the 1850s, depicts a subject in a tignon, a headdress rooted in West African tradition and central to Creole fashion among free and enslaved women of color in Louisiana and the Caribbean. Wearers transformed these headscarves into expressions of identity through bright colors, patterns, and intricate wrapping.
- 10 × 12.84 in. image, 11 × 14 in. print
- Printed on Archival paper, unframed
- Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans, Artist
- © The Historic New Orleans Collection