Curé Labelle Seated, Head Shaved
![Colourized photograph of Curé Labelle seated at a desk, holding a letter. His right hand rests on the desk, and his left hand rests on the arm of his chair.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/antoine-labelle-l-homme-son-oeuvre_the-man-his-legacy/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2016/12/A9_1Cure-Labelle_colorise.jpg)
Photographer: Unknown
Date: Around 1880
Coloring: Dominique Beauregard, 2015
Source: Private collection of Dominique Beauregard
Arthur Buies said of his good friend: “To be able to get through the work he got through in 20 years, he had to be a man of many parts: a priest, a colonizer, a politician, a man of ideas, devoted, indomitable, unselfish, fiery, and indulgent to the point of ignoring the limits of indulgence.”