This painting is attributed to Jacques Amans, the leading French émigré portraitist working in New Orleans during the 1830s-50s. The portrait depicts a known Black individual with the family of his enslaver, a rare subject that illuminates the close but inhumane relationships that defined domestic slavery and its afterlives. At the turn of the twentieth century, the prominent depiction of the enslaved Afro-Creole teenager, Bélizaire (ca. 1822—after 1865), who is positioned against a suggestive Louisiana landscape above the three young Frey siblings presumably in his care, was deliberately concealed—likely by a member of the Frey family. A century later he was revealed after careful conservation treatment, and research recovered the sitters’ identities. Bélizaire survived the Civil War and lived to be free; both girls died the year the portrait was painted and their brother nearly a decade later.