I haven't done a thing for Black History Month this year, so here, a wonderful image from Girodet (Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, whom mousme was kind enough to identify as male for me before I tracked him down on English-language sites, doh!).

Portrait du citoyen Jean-Baptiste Belley, représentant des Colonies (1797) by Girodet (Anne-Louis ( Read more... )