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The sitter of this portrait, Frédéric Donnadieu, was a plantation owner in Saint Domingue (present day Haiti). The exotic landscape pointed to by Donnadieu undoubtedly refers to this location, as does the black servant. Elsewhere in the composition, Bosio renders with great delicacy the fashionable Empire furniture and musical instruments and scores, whose inclusion suggests that the sitter was a connoisseur of music and possibly a musician himself.
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