{"product_id":"gabriel-manigault","title":"Gabriel Manigault","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist: \u003c\/strong\u003eJeremiah Theus (American, 1716–1774)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Dimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003e30\" x 24\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLocation:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Artwork: \u003c\/strong\u003e(1757) \"\u003cspan\u003ePortraits of the South Carolina Manigault family patriarch and matriarch (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/12793\"\u003e28.126.2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) by Charleston’s leading 18th-century painter, the Swiss-born Jeremiah Theus, document two centuries of aristocratic privilege as well as the material afterlives of what made it possible. Son of a French Huguenot merchant, Manigault was considered the wealthiest man in colonial South Carolina, who supported the revolutionary cause with his private fortune derived from rice plantations run by slave-labor. He reportedly counted nearly 300 enslaved individuals as his property at one time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese works also hold a history of the family’s declining fortunes post-emancipation. In 1867, a descendant, Charles Izard Manigault, recorded how the paintings were defaced (see black-and-white images), likely after their removal to the family’s Silk Hope plantation for safe-keeping during the Civil War. Recent scholarship has proposed this deliberate disfigurement of the canvases as acts of iconoclasm and rebellion by formerly enslaved residents of Silk Hope.\" - (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/12791\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York - Gabriel Manigault\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeremiah Theus","offers":[{"title":"No Size Selected (Select a Size)","offer_id":49887823429875,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Replica Size (30\" x 24\")","offer_id":49887823462643,"sku":null,"price":1296.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Signature Size (20\" x 16\")","offer_id":49887823495411,"sku":null,"price":695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Classic Size (24 1\/2\" x 19 5\/8\")","offer_id":49887823528179,"sku":null,"price":895.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Gallery Size (30\" x 24\")","offer_id":49887823560947,"sku":null,"price":1295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Statement Size (38 3\/4\" x 31\")","offer_id":49887823593715,"sku":null,"price":1995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Grand Size (46 1\/2\" x 37 1\/4\")","offer_id":49887823626483,"sku":null,"price":2795.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate Size (54 3\/4\" x 43 3\/4\")","offer_id":49887823659251,"sku":null,"price":3695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Museum Size (65 3\/4\" x 52 5\/8\")","offer_id":49887823692019,"sku":null,"price":4995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5738\/6483\/files\/GabrielManigault.jpg?v=1788974331","url":"https:\/\/commissionedpaintings.com\/products\/gabriel-manigault","provider":"Commissioned Paintings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}