Cécile Fromont

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Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com

Couverture de livre montrant une rencontre entre un aristocrate africain et un frère Capucin
Print of woman wearing an earring and head wrap
Marble bust of a Kongo ambassador
Detail of a tapestry
Furniture and elephant skull
Inside of a dome with painted scenes of the last judgement,
Legs of a man burning on a griddle
A friar and a Central African man converse in a landscape
A friar is greeted by a Central African ruler circa 1750
Attributed to Jean-René Lhermitte, View of Cap Français and of the ship Marie-Séraphique, capitaine Gaugy, on the day of the beginning of sales, third trip to Angola, 1772–73. Watercolour on paper, 55 × 43 cm. Nantes: Musée d'Histoire de Nantes. Photo: Musée d'Histoire de Nantes.
African Queen Njinga leading a group of people