Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

Behind her, drapery is pulled back to reveal a bucolic landscape, a common trope in portraits at the time ... Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.

3.1 x 3.5 cm / 3.4 x 2.8 cm 3.3 x 2.8 cm / 3.6 x 3 cm 5.8 x 5.2 cm / 6.3 x 5.4 cm 5.9 x 5.2 cm / 6.4 x 6.2 cm ...