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Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)

1785
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 633
Eugène Foullon d’Ecotier must have commissioned this portrait after his appointment in June 1785 as Intendant of Guadeloupe and before his departure for the French colony that November. In the interim, Vestier showed it at the Salon of 1785. Vestier’s tendency to pick out minute details is evident in his depictions of the map of Guadeloupe and the Ordonnances de la Marine, a publication that outlined regulations for colonial administration. The enslaved labor producing the sugar and cacao that made Guadeloupe so lucrative for the French economy is unacknowledged by these props. In the late 1780s, Guadeloupe’s population included over eighty-six thousand enslaved men and women.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)
  • Artist: Antoine Vestier (French, Avallon 1740–1824 Paris)
  • Date: 1785
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: Oval, 31 5/8 x 25 1/8 in. (80.3 x 63.8 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1983
  • Object Number: 1983.405
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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