Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley is a 1797 portrait painting by the French artist Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.

It depicts Jean-Baptiste Belley, a former slave from Saint-Domingue who was elected to serve in the National Convention following the French Revolution.

[1][2] He stands beside a bust of the French abolitionist Guillaume Thomas François Raynal.

[3] The composition resembles the artist's later Portrait of Chateaubriand.

[5] On display in Toulon for several decades, it was acquired for the Louvre in 1828 for 3,000 Francs when it was believed to be a portrait of Toussaint Louverture.