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Alfred Boisseau (American-Canadian, 1823-1901), Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou, 1847. Oil on canvas. New Orleans Museum of Art, Gift of William E. Groves.
Following the example of a number of well-trained European artists who were lured to New Orleans in the 1830s and 1840s, Parisian artist Alfred Boisseau arrived in the city in 1845. During his two years in New Orleans he exhibited in 1845 and again in 1847 at the Paris salon where Louisiana Indians Walking Along the Bayou was first shown. Attracted by the exotic, Boisseau was able to endow the native scene with great freshness and perceptive vision. In this painting details of the hair and basket styles indicate that the Indigenous people of the Choctaw nation are depicted. The locale is thought to be somewhere along the Tchefuncta River on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Choctaws were frequently seen in the markets of New Orleans, where they sold baskets, goods woven from palmetto leaves, and file, a root condiment used in the preparation of Creole foods.
