France: Portrait d'une négresse / Portrait of a Negress, Marie-Guillemine Benoist ((1768-1826), 1800

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical and genre painter.

In 1800, she exhibited Portrait d'une négresse in the Salon de Paris. Six years previously, slavery had been abolished, and this image became a symbol for women's emancipation and black people's rights. The picture was acquired by Louis XVIII for France in 1818.

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