This painting of Girodet dating back to 1797 can be inscribed in a triple historical context that is articulated around the French Revolution, the revolution of slaves in Saint-Domingue as well as the debates of the Enlightenment about slavery, and finally the slave trade with the legitimacy of colonies as exemplified by the bust of Raynal. The bust of renowned Guillaune-Thomas Raynal is represented here alongside the black Member of Parliament. Raynal died on the 4th of April 1796. An anti-slavery campaigner since the 1770s, Raynal embodied the radical side of the fight against the colonial system of his time. But, and this is crucial to analyse the implications of the painting, Raynal had been vastly discredited in the patriotic public ey...
Delisle Philippe. Girollet (Anne), Victor Schoelcher, abolitionniste et républicain. Approche juridi...
Biard Michel. Julien Guérin, Solon Reynaud (1749-1815). In: Annales historiques de la Révolution fra...
Nicolas Roche, The Colonial Question in the Year III. The invention of the myth of the Gironde. Tak...
En 1797, Girodet-Trioson peignait le portrait de Jean-Baptiste Belley, un Noir qui fut député de Sai...
During the French Revolution, portraiture played an important role in the forging of identities for ...
This contribution analyzes the surprising Letter to the National Assembly of France by Guillaume-Tho...
Comprend : [Volume 1. Portrait de l'auteur en frontispice :] Guillaume Thomas Raynal (...). [Cote : ...
Anne Louis Girodet showed his portrait of Belley at the Salon of 1798 during the height of the Direc...
Jean-Daniel PIQUET, Robespierre and the liberation of blacks in the Year II from the archives of the...
First published online: 30 August 2017Abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal’s Histoire philosophique et polit...
Œuvre de vingt ans et de plusieurs mains, signée par Guillaume- Thomas Raynal, y compris celles de D...
L’Histoire des deux Indes fut conçue par l’abbé Raynal comme un point de rencontre et de rassembleme...
Célèbre pour les contributions de Diderot, l Histoire des deux Indes (1770/1774/1780) est en fait l ...
Issues affecting France’s colonies came to the fore through critiques of social, political, and econ...
From the 15th to the middle of the 19th Centuries, the slave trade supplied the European colonies wi...
Delisle Philippe. Girollet (Anne), Victor Schoelcher, abolitionniste et républicain. Approche juridi...
Biard Michel. Julien Guérin, Solon Reynaud (1749-1815). In: Annales historiques de la Révolution fra...
Nicolas Roche, The Colonial Question in the Year III. The invention of the myth of the Gironde. Tak...
En 1797, Girodet-Trioson peignait le portrait de Jean-Baptiste Belley, un Noir qui fut député de Sai...
During the French Revolution, portraiture played an important role in the forging of identities for ...
This contribution analyzes the surprising Letter to the National Assembly of France by Guillaume-Tho...
Comprend : [Volume 1. Portrait de l'auteur en frontispice :] Guillaume Thomas Raynal (...). [Cote : ...
Anne Louis Girodet showed his portrait of Belley at the Salon of 1798 during the height of the Direc...
Jean-Daniel PIQUET, Robespierre and the liberation of blacks in the Year II from the archives of the...
First published online: 30 August 2017Abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal’s Histoire philosophique et polit...
Œuvre de vingt ans et de plusieurs mains, signée par Guillaume- Thomas Raynal, y compris celles de D...
L’Histoire des deux Indes fut conçue par l’abbé Raynal comme un point de rencontre et de rassembleme...
Célèbre pour les contributions de Diderot, l Histoire des deux Indes (1770/1774/1780) est en fait l ...
Issues affecting France’s colonies came to the fore through critiques of social, political, and econ...
From the 15th to the middle of the 19th Centuries, the slave trade supplied the European colonies wi...
Delisle Philippe. Girollet (Anne), Victor Schoelcher, abolitionniste et républicain. Approche juridi...
Biard Michel. Julien Guérin, Solon Reynaud (1749-1815). In: Annales historiques de la Révolution fra...
Nicolas Roche, The Colonial Question in the Year III. The invention of the myth of the Gironde. Tak...