Picture intended as an illustration of a black man and used as jacket illustration for a biography on abram petrovich gannibal (1696-1781) written by hugh barnes (2005). Gannibal was a former slave of the ottoman sulltan at constantinople, secretary of peter the great, military engineer, later major general and governor of reval (now: tallinn) and finally general-en-chef, supervising the building of seaforts and canals in russia in the 1700s. The picture is called 'nègre au turban' ['black with turban']. It is a drawing and can be seen in the musée national in paris. As gannibal died 17 years before the birth of the artist, this picture does not portray gannibal.
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