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Picture intended as an illustration of a black man and used as jacket illustration for a biography on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal" class="extiw" title="en:Abram Petrovich Gannibal">Abram Petrovich Gannibal</a> (1696-1781) written by Hugh Barnes (2005). Gannibal was a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" class="extiw" title="en:Slavery">slave</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" class="extiw" title="en:Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan" class="extiw" title="en:Sultan">Sulltan</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople" class="extiw" title="en:Constantinople">Constantinople</a>, secretary of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great" class="extiw" title="en:Peter the Great">Peter the Great</a>, military engineer, later major general and governor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reval" class="extiw" title="en:Reval">Reval</a> (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.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix" class="extiw" title="w:en:Eugène Delacroix"><span title="French painter (1798–1863)">Eugène Delacroix</span></a>
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