Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 340

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(HAITI.) BOYER, JEAN-PIERRE. Jean Pierre Boyer President D'Haiti by Barincou. Chromolithograph portrait. 12-3/4x9 inches. matted and framed. [Paris?, circa 1821]
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rare portrait of haiti's "reunifier." Jean Pierre Boyer, took power in 1821 following a long period of division and bloodshed under the regimes of Dessalines and Christophe. Boyer however was faced with a dilemma. The French gave him a choice of paying off an enormous debt owed them because of the loss of the colony, or facing a flotilla of French gun-ships that lay just off the coast. As a result, Boyer was forced to compel the Haitians to hand over a large portion of their crops or the earnings therefrom. He was thus accused of putting the island back into a state virtual slavery.