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For years, the three children from a well-to-do New Orleans family seemed to be the only figures in a nearly forgotten painting attributed to French artist Jacques Amans. Two of the three Frey children died the very year the painting was made, possibly of yellow fever, and the third child died a few years later. 

19th Century Portrait Restored to Reveal Enslaved Teenager

19th Century Portrait Restored to Reveal Enslaved Teenager

An 1837 portrait depicting but later concealing an enslaved teen boy with a white family from New Orleans has finally been restored.

A 19th century family portrait which was altered to cover up an enslaved teenager initially etched on canvas has been recently restored to its original version. After half a century in hiding, it is now set to hang in The Metropolitan Museum of Art this Fall.

Source: Jeff Greenberg / Getty As we saw in the powerful period piece film Chevalier that released back in April, Black history is filled with many gaps that unfortunately were put there due to a still-ongoing global issue with racism towards minorities. From having inventions stolen and even our DNA robbed, to often being erased from the history books altogether, African Americans specifically have a lot more to learn when it comes to filling in those cultural blanks. A good example of that era...

The painting of Bélizaire, 15, shown behind the children of his enslavers, has been acquired by the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is spotlighting Bélizaire, an enslaved boy hidden beneath a coat of overpaint in a 19th-century artwork.

For many years, a 19th-century painting of three white children in a Louisiana landscape held a secret. Beneath a layer of overpaint meant to look lik

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired Bélizaire and the Frey Children, a rare 19th-century portrait with an enslaved person.