Drinkers, Ezra Ames, circa. 1830, Oil on wood panel
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This genre scene showing drinkers and gamblers was once thought to depict brothers Jean and Pierre Lafitte with Dominique You. The identity of all four celebrants is unknown.
Courtesy of the Collections of the Louisiana State Museum
This file appears in: Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and the Battle of New Orleans
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and the Battle of New Orleans
For many years, a bar called “Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop” has occupied this building at the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Philip Street. Designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1970, Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop was built between 1772 and 1791…