Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, Deputy from Saint-Domingue
Anne-Louis Girodet · 1797
Why it's great
Jean-Baptiste Belley, a former slave who became a deputy to the French National Convention for Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), leans on a bust of an antislavery writer. Anne-Louis Girodet painted him in 1797, three years after France first abolished slavery.
🏛️ Part of history
Slavery & the Fight for Freedom (1780–1865) — Jean-Baptiste Belley, a former slave who became a deputy to the French National Convention for Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), leans on a bust of an antislavery writer.
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Anne-Louis Girodet was born in Montargis, France, and studied under Jacques-Louis David. He became a leader of French Romanticism with dreamy, mysterious paintings. He lived in Rome and Paris. He died in Paris in 1824.
