Drinkers, Ezra Ames, circa. 1830, Oil on wood panel

ID: 3370

This file appears in: Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop and the Battle of New Orleans

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

By Mary Ann Wegmann, Louisiana State Museum & University of New Orleans History Department

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…