Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(HAITI.) L'OUVERTURE, TOUSSAINT. Toussaint L'Ouverture, Friedenstorer zu Domingo ["liberator of Haiti"] Hand-colored lithograph, 6x3- 3/8 inches; some light toning; bottom and right margins closely trimmed. Germany, circa 1820s

Additional Details

All of Europe followed the French Revolution, and with it, events as they unfolded on the island of Haiti. This German portrait was possibly part of a contemporary history book. The portrait shows a full-faced sympathetic image, with less of the distorted jutting jaw and exaggeration typical of the Delpech versions.