Portrait with slave, Musee d'histoire de Nantes, Nantes

Portrait of Marguerite Deurbroucq, detail, oil painting, 1753, by Pierre-Bernard Morlot, 1716-80, in the Musee d'histoire de Nantes, in the Chateau des ducs de Bretagne, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The wife of Dominique Deurbroucq, a trader, is shown with Louis XV style furniture and wearing a fashionable silk dress, with a pet parrot. She is served by a black slave, bringing sugar for her coffee, whose dark skin accentuates the whiteness of the lady's, a sign of beauty. The museum opened in 2007 and covers the history of Nantes, focusing on slavery, world wars, industrialisation and the chateau. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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