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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.