Haitian images (5)


Source: Michel Oriol, Images de la révolution à Saint-Domingue Port-au-Prince. Haiti: Editions Henri Deschamps, 1992, p. 68)
Images: A painting attributed to Jacques-Louis David (French painter, 1748-1825) of Léger Félicité Sonthonax (1763-1814)
Perspective: Sonthonax was the representative (commissaire civil) of the French Revolution's government in Haiti (Saint Domingue) in the 1796-1797.
Cultural humanities: Presence of the French Revolution in Haitian culture