Capoeira Scene

Capoeira Scene

Negroes fighting, Brazils. The men's body movements are those of Capoeira.

Water color on paper titled Negroes fighting, Brazils. Although the word fighting is in the artist's title, the men's body movements are those of Capoeira (see image reference NW0171 on this website). Several onlookers are shown, including a woman carrying an infant, and a white policeman/soldier approaching the scene; the seated man is playing a drum, the source of music for this performance. Augustus Earle, an English painter, lived in Rio from early 1820 to early 1824, with occasional trips to Chile and Peru during that period.

Augustus Earle

Painted by Augustus Earle (1793-1838); original in National Library of Australia, Canberra (nla.pic-an2822650)

National Library of Australia, Canberra

1820-24

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Water color on paper

English

Displaying the movements of Capoeira.

IMG03

South America--Brazil

Watercolor painting