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Cayenne Victor Schoelcher statue by Louis-Ernest Barrias
2013-03-23
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
French Guiana, Cayenne, square Victor-Schoelcher: statue of Victor Schoelcher (1804-1893), with a slave whom he shows the way to liberty, following the definitive abolition of slavery in 1848 in France. The monument was erected in 1896, the statue is by the French sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905), it is listed as Cultural Heritage Monument since 1999.
