Marie Adrien Persac, Dr. John Dominique's Store (1857)

Marie Adrien Persac, Dr. John Dominique's Store (1857)

Louisiana--Plantations

John Dominique's store was adjacent to Dr. Henry Johnson's Chatham plantation in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. It can be seen in Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River from 1858, just below Chatham, then owned by John R. Thompson.

Members of the Maryland Jesuit enslaved community who were sold to Henry Johnson and lived at the Chatham plantation would have been familiar with Dr. Dominque's store. This 1857 painting by Marie Adrien Persac, a prominent Louisiana painter, shows what it would have looked like just before the Civil War.

For an explanation of the history of the painting, see H. Parrott Bacot et al, Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist (Louisiana State University Press, 2000), 38.

This painting is held by the Louisiana State Museum. We are grateful to the LSM for permission to include the painting in the Georgetown Slavery Archive.

Marie Adrien Persac

Georgetown Slavery Archive

1857

Adam Rothman

Louisiana State Museum

Painting

English

Painting

GSA447

Gouache and collage on paper

23 ½ x 27 inches