Colonial Networks
Remapping the “Paris” Art World in Haiti/Saint-Domingue
This project focuses on a 1786 map of sugar and coffee plantations in Haiti (then known as Saint-Domingue). The map is inscribed with the names of plantation owners, many of whom were also key figures in the Paris art world. Based on original archival research and digital mapping technologies, this project explores largely unknown connections between colonial networks and the production and consumption of French art in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Colonial Networks is a project is led by Meredith Martin (New York University) and Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University of London).
