De Bry Illustrations: Florida (15)


Source: Michel Duchet, L'Amérique de Théodore De Bry. Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1987, p. 166 (Plate 42).
Latin / French title: Murder of the Frenchman Pierre Gambie.
Image: Two Timucuan men, a French man between them, a canoe, a river, and an axe.
Comment: This is the last image of Florida that Jacques LeMoyne included in his collection of paintings of Florida. LeMoyne's comment (given to us via De Bry) is that he (LeMoyne) forgot about this scene and simply added it at the end of the collection.
Cultural humanities (history): This image depicts Timucuans in Florida at the time of the encounter with the French, and a fairly frequent kind of encounter ...