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Portrait of a Haitian Woman(formerly Portrait of a Negro Slave and Slave with Still Life)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
François Beaucourt  (1740–1794)  wikidata:Q5493179
 
François Beaucourt
Alternative names
François Malepart de Beaucourt
Description painter
Date of birth/death 25 February 1740 Edit this at Wikidata 24 June 1794 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death La Prairie Edit this at Wikidata Montreal Edit this at Wikidata
Work period Province of Quebec (1763–1791)
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creator QS:P170,Q5493179
Title
Portrait of a Haitian Woman

(formerly
Portrait of a Negro Slave
and
Slave with Still Life
)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: A portrait of a woman thought to have been painted in Saint Domingue (now Haiti). Art historian Charmaine Nelson believes it to be of an African woman, Marie-Thérèse Zémire, brought to Haiti from Africa and then taken to Montreal as a slave owned by Beaucourt's wife.[1]
Date 1786
date QS:P571, 1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 69.1 cm (27.2 in); width: 55.6 cm (21.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,69.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,55.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1128578
Accession number
M12067
References
  1. ↑ Scott, Marian (31 January 2014). "Painting offers glimpse into Canada’s slave-owning past". Montreal Gazette.
Source/Photographer http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M12067?Lang=1&accessnumber=M12067 (downloaded with Dezoomify)
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