Portrait of General François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture
Artist(s) / maker(s)
Rosselin (publisher),
Auguste Bry (printers (people))
,
Antoine Maurin (after)
Period
19th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, also known as Toussaint Bréda or Toussaint-L'Ouverture (Cap-Haïtien 1743 - Château de Joux, near Pontarlier 1803) was a French general and leader of the Haitian Revolution, which led to the abolition of slavery and the independence of the French colony of Saint-Domingue as the republic of Haiti (which included the entire island of Hispaniola from 1801 to…
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François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, also known as Toussaint Bréda or Toussaint-L'Ouverture (Cap-Haïtien 1743 - Château de Joux, near Pontarlier 1803) was a French general and leader of the Haitian Revolution, which led to the abolition of slavery and the independence of the French colony of Saint-Domingue as the republic of Haiti (which included the entire island of Hispaniola from 1801 to 1844).
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