Free Woman of Color, New Orleans, 1844
Oil painting by Adolph Rinck, a German artist of a femme de couleur libre, wearing an elaborate kerchief or tignon. The subject is possibly Marie Laveau, the famous voodoo priestess (Campbell and Rice, p. xi). The University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana holds the painting.
Image Title
Free Woman of Color, New Orleans, 1844
RegID
SI-OB-525
Title
Free Woman of Color, New Orleans, 1844
Source
Published in E.D.C. Campbell and K.S. Rice, eds., Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991), plate 4, p. xi.
Language
English
Item sets
Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals
Spatial Coverage
North America--Louisiana--New Orleans
Reproduced In
E.D.C. Campbell and K.S. Rice, eds., Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991), plate 4, p. xi
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
18-Mar-16
Identifier
NW0123