Jean-Baptiste Belley, Saint Domingue (Haiti), 1797 or 1798
Belley was a Senegalese, born at Goree about 1747 and enslaved in St. Domingue. Later he was in the French army and in 1793 became a representative of St. Domingue to the French government, a position he continued to hold for several years. For details on Belley and this painting, which is located at the Musèe National des Chateaux de Versailles, France (which also issues it as a colored postcard), see Honour, Image of the Black, pp. 104 ff, and Laurent Dubois, Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), pp. 66-68.
Image Title
Jean-Baptiste Belley, Saint Domingue (Haiti), 1797 or 1798
RegID
SI-OB-519
Date
1767-1825
Title
Jean-Baptiste Belley, Saint Domingue (Haiti), 1797 or 1798
Source
Painted by Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824) and published in Hugh Honour, The Image of the Black in Western Art (Menil Foundation, Harvard University Press, 1989), vol. 4, pt. 1, p. 104, fig. 55.
Language
English
Item sets
Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--St. Domingue
Reproduced In
Honour, Hugh. The Image of the Black in Western Art. HUP, 1989, vol. 4, p. 104; Laurent Dubois, Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), p. 66-68
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
NW0225