Open-access Bélizaire and the Figure to Come

This essay examines the erasure and later restoration of Bélizaire, a young Black boy portrayed by Jacques Amans in 1837. Drawing on 19th-century artistic treatises and contemporary critical theory, it discusses the aesthetic and ideological logic of racial invisibility in Southern American genre portraiture.

KEYWORDS
Bélizaire; Genre Painting; Portrait; Invisibility; Visual Racism

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