メトロポリタン美術館のインスタグラム(metmuseum) - 10月13日 06時47分

NOW ON VIEW—“Bélizaire and the Frey Children” is a rare American portrait of an enslaved Black subject depicted with the family of his enslaver.

Attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans—the leading French émigré portraitist working in 1830s-50s New Orleans—the painting illuminates the complex relationships of intimacy and inhumanity that defined domestic enslavement. The portrait’s later history also reveals the consequential afterlives of slavery.

At the turn of the 20th century, the prominent depiction of the enslaved Afro-Creole teenager, Bélizaire, who is positioned against a Louisiana landscape above the three young Frey siblings presumably in his care, was deliberately concealed—likely by a member of the Frey family.

The figure was only revealed after a careful conservation treatment. Archival research has also recovered the identities and some of the histories of all four subjects. Bélizaire survived the Civil War and lived to experience freedom. Both Frey sisters died the same year the portrait was painted, their brother some nine years later.

See the painting on view now in the American Wing in Gallery 756.

🎨 Attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (Franco-American, 1801–1888). Bélizaire and the Frey Children, ca. 1837. Oil on canvas.

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