The University of Chicago Working Group on Slavery and Visual Culture presents a keynote lecture by

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (University of California, Berkeley)

“INGRES’S CREOLES (SECRETS)”

22 March 19h00

University of Chicago Center in Paris

6, rue Thomas Mann, 75013 PARIS, 01 53 94 78 80

In 1836, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres told sixteen-year-old student Théodore Chassériau to secretly paint the celebrated black model Joseph, famously placed at the apex of Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa. Locked behind closed doors and left in the dark as to Ingres’s plans, two Creoles – painter and model – confronted one another; this lecture considers their meeting in light of France’s history of slavery.