Pierre, Juliette, and Euphémie Toussaint posed for these miniature portraits in the mid-1820s—a prosperous time for the family. Pierre Toussaint delighted his wife and daughter by commissioning a miniature of his own likeness as a Christmas present. Portraits of Juliette and Euphémie soon followed. Anthony Meucci, an Italian-born painter and miniaturist, signed Pierre Toussaint’s and likely painted Juliette’s. His wife Nina, herself a miniaturist, may have painted Euphémie’s. Pierre Toussaint was one of New York City’s most fashionable hairdressers. He and Juliette married for love, and adopted his infant niece Euphémie when his sister died. Known for their religious devotion, the couple had a wide network of friends and a remarkable range of charitable activities. The Toussaints showed conventional taste and refinement by sitting for these portraits in fine fabrics and high style. Juliette wears coral jewelry and a headwrap fashioned from a Madras-plaid handkerchief—adornments rooted in her Afro-Caribbean heritage. By wearing a head wrap, or tignon, Mrs. Toussaint signaled their distinctiveness. Tignons were associated with Africa, the French Caribbean, and slavery. Both Toussaints were born in Saint Domingue (later Haiti) and once enslaved. Toussaint’s enslavers brought him to New York as a teenager in the 1790s. He served the family and was hired out as a skilled hairdresser. In 1807, freed from slavery upon his owners’ deaths, he purchased his sister’s freedom, his future wife’s, and that of many others. His virtuous acts and lifelong support of the Catholic Church led to his exhumation in 1989 and reburial in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. In 1997, Pope John Paul II declared Toussaint “Venerable,” setting him on a path to becoming North America’s first Black saint.