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FLORVILLE FOY
b. 1819, New Orleans, Louisiana d. 1903, New Orleans, Louisiana
Statue, ca. 1838 Marble; 20 x 25 in. Louisiana State Museum
Florville Foy, a free man of color, was a marble cutter, sculptor, and proprietor of one of the most successful marble yards in nineteenth-century New Orleans. His signed tombs, vaults, and memorial objects may be seen in the oldest “cities of the dead”: St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, and St. Louis Cemetery No. 3, as well as in Catholic cemeteries along the Gulf Coast. Foy’s success came at a time when free blacks in other parts of the South faced increasing animosity. Though certainly not free of racism, New Orleans provided a more hospitable working environment for Foy and other free men of color who made their living as artists, including Julien Hudson, Jules Lion, and Louis Lucien Pessou. PB
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