Portrait of a Haitian woman - Public domain portrait painting

Portrait of a Haitian woman - Public domain portrait painting

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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]

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1786
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public domain

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