Portrait of the Marquise MORIN de BANNEVILLE and his son
Fine Arts
Inventory number
2021.7.26.13.FA.PA.1835.FRAuthor:
UNIDENTIFIEDDescription
Full-length painted portrait of Elisabeth LABBEY de La ROQUE and her son Gaston MORIN de BANNEVILLE. She is depicted playing the harp and wearing an 1825-style gown composed of two part, a skirt slightly flared at the bottom with a straight waist line, and a round-necked bodice adorned with a white lace collar and puffed sleeves covered with muslin ending at the cuffs. The child wears a brown dress in the transition style (Empire to Bourbon Restoration). An inscription at the bottom of the painting indicates that it was executed from memory in 1835.The portrait represents Elisabeth LABBEY de La ROQUE (? -1857), wife of Adrien Louis Armand, Marquis MORIN de BANNEVILLE (1785-1856), and his son Gaston Robert MORIN de BANNEVILLE (1818-1881) future French Ambassador at Bern in 1866, then to the Holy See at Rome from 1868 to 1871, and at Vienna from 1871 to 1875 and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1877.
The family of the Marquis MORIN de BANNEVILLE owned a coffee and cotton plantation on the island of Hispaniola. Despite the Haitian revolution and the troubles concerning the abolition of slavery, it succeeds in maintaining an economic activity, among other things thanks to the Rural Code of Jean-Pierre BOYER (President of Haiti from 1818 to 1843). The First Dominican Republic (1844-1865) addicted to the increasingly important unrest on the Haitian side put an end to the exploitation of the properties of the Marquis MORIN de BANNEVILLE.
Materials
Oil on canvasWood frame
Origin
1835 FranceDimensions
Width : 4 cmLength : 170 cm
Height : 230 cm