Elliot deBruyn

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Aug 16, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Elliot deBruyn

Craig Crawford works to restore “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” attributed to Jacques Amans, a 19th-century French portraitist of Louisiana’s elite, at his studio in Columbia, S.C. Crawford restored the image of the black youth Bélizaire, who had been painted over some time around 1900; the work now has a prominent, permanent home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Elliot deBruyn/The New York Times)

Aug 16, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Elliot deBruyn

A detail from “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” attributed to Jacques Amans, a 19th-century French portraitist of Louisiana’s elite, in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art’s conservation studio in New York. For many years, this painting of three white children in a Louisiana landscape held a secret. Beneath a layer of overpaint meant to look like the sky: the figure of an enslaved youth. (Elliot deBruyn/The New York Times)

Aug 14, 2023 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Eaton |Caroline Kim |Elliot deBruyn |Bron Moyi

new video loaded: Exclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the MettranscripttranscriptExclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the MetThe Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over a 100 years, the image of an enslaved child was erased. This is his story. For over 100 years, this family portrait held a secret: a fourth figure that had been painted out.

Aug 14, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Alexandra Eaton |Caroline Kim |Elliot deBruyn |Bron Moyi

new video loaded: Exclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the MettranscripttranscriptExclusive: How a Rare Portrait of an Enslaved Child Arrived at the MetThe Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over a 100 years, the image of an enslaved child was erased. This is his story. [CELLO PLAYING] For over 100 years, this family portrait held a secret: a fourth figure that had been painted out.