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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.
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 erasure hit us over the head earlier this week when it was revealed that a 19th-century painting by Fre...
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
Back in 1837, Bélizaire was the Black or mixed-race domestic servant of the Freys, a wealthy, White, French Quarter family. The enslaved 15-year-old was apparently such an important part of