Sujet
Leopold II, 1865-1875. Creator: Nadar.
Légende
Leopold II, 1865-1875. Portrait of King Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909), founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Leopold ran the Congo, (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo), which he never personally visited, by using the mercenary Force Publique for his personal gain. He extracted a fortune from the territory, initially by the collection of ivory and, after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s, by forced labour from the Indigenous population to harvest and process rubber.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM26A22_280
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
76.6Mo (5.4Mo) / 37.2cm x 51.6cm / 4391 x 6098 (300dpi)