COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09-147
Record number:
09-147
JCB call number:
Fr795 B727 OVERSIZE
Image title:
Passage des 11 jours du pillage de la ville du Cap Français...
Creator 1:
Boquet
Place image published:
[Paris?]
Image date:
1795
Image function:
print
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
47.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
70.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
54.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
72.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
The Haitian revolutionaries are depicted, from the artist’s European perspective, in the aftermath of the Battle of Cap-Français. There are scenes of celebration, but also violence and unrest. Haitians are shown looting and mocking the French while dressing in European clothes, while the French express feelings of sorrow and mutual consolation. Includes: music (drums, guitar); dancing; violence (whip, knife); care for the wounded and a pregnant woman; civil unrest (alcohol drinking, public urination); loot, plunder (chest, wagon, goods); cooking and butchering (a cow).
notes:
The French painter J. L. Boquet both created the painting upon which this print was based and engraved (or etched) the print. Boquet was living in Cap Français and made at least three paintings of the early years of the Haitian Revolution which were engraved by Jean-Baptiste Chapuy and sold in France as a set of colored prints as early as 1799. This version of the proof, however, looks to have been engraved by Boquet himself, perhaps before the involvement of Chapuy. The original painting of the “Passage des onze jours…” is at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library (at Duke University).
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Alejandro E. Gómez, “Images de l’apocalypse des planteurs,” L'Ordinaire des Amériques 215 (2013), http://journals.ope… | Laurence Brown, “Visions of violence in the Haitian Revolution,” Atlantic Studies, 13, 1 (2016):144-164
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2009.
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Cap-Haïtien (Haiti)--Description and travel
Subject headings:
Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804
Passage des 11 jours du pillage de la ville du Cap Français...
