Portraiture, Race, and Subjectivity: the Opacity of Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrai d’une nagresse

• Format: Article
• Author: Bishop, Cécile
• Publisher: Word and Image
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Journal Name: Name
• Journal Volume: 35
• Journal Number: 1
• DOI: 10.1080/02666286.2018.1507507
• ISSN/ISBN: 0266-6286
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• Website URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/twim20

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Article examining a neoclassical portrait of a Black woman painted in 1800 during the short period between France’s first abolition of slavery (1794) and its reestablishment (1802).