Painting, Musee du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle, France
La Bamboula, oil painting on canvas, 1836, by Louis-Honore-Frederic Gamain, 1803-71, in the Musee du Nouveau Monde, or New World Museum, opened 1982 in the Hotel Fleuriau, an 18th century mansion home to merchant Aime-Benjamin Fleuriau, 1707-1877, in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The painting depicts a celebration or voodoo ceremony at night in the woods, with people dancing around a fire. The museum explores links between France and the Americas, including the slave trade. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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