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Portrait of Zoé Bourdages
Information about the object
Historical period
c. 1920
Dimensions
Height: 49.60 cm. Width: 34 cm.
Classification
Fine arts -- Photography
Accession number
1980.F.50
Division
Iconography -- Means of expression -- Photography
Collection
Juliette Gauthier Barette
Donor
Juliette Gauthier Barette
Category/theme
Description of the object
Vertical oval frame, brown and black with curved glass. Transliteration: Zoé Bourdages, wife of Jean-Louis Arsenault, grandmother of Fenelon Arsenault / Her house was the one where Léonce Gauthier lived in 1977.
Value of the item
The photograph shows an Acadian woman from Bonaventure. Marie-Zoé Bourdages (1835–1919) was the daughter of Laurent Bourdages and Marguerite Beaudry. She married Jean-Louis Arsenault on February 8, 1859.
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For more information about this family: https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Bourdage_Marie-Zoe&pid=463219