The Portrait was later renamed after 'Portrait of a Black Woman' and 'Portrait of Madeleine' is a painting by the French painter Marie-Guillemine Benoist. She painted the portrait around 1800, only six years after the abolition of slavery in the French colonies, at the time of the French Revolution. She broke with the Orientalist habit of depicting coloured people in exotic costumes and backgrounds. The painting thus symbolises the emancipation of coloured people.
Benoist presented the portrait at the Paris Salon and received both praise and criticism. The work now hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
This model the turban poses topless in front of the painter, leaving her breasts naked on the portrait. At the same time the shoulders and arms of the lady are exposed.
Marie-Guillemine Benoist (Paris, France December 18, 1768 - there, October 8, 1826) was a French neoclassicist painter. She made historical works and genre pieces.
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