Around the same time, the museum embarked on exhaustive research on the portrait ... of an enslaved boy of African descent depicted in the work, who has poured madeira into glasses for the ...

Giovanni Francesco Caroto painted the Portrait of a Young Boy Holding a Child's Drawing. The boy's eager, slightly toothsome smile gives this picture a place in the history of portraiture.

commissioned a portrait of his three white children, as well as an enslaved Black child. Decades later, a family member painted over the boy, leaving the other three as they were. Now, experts ...

Yale's namesake sits at the center of this group portrait ... the enslaved child at their side. When the gallery was rehung in 2016, a new line acknowledged little beyond the boy’s apparel ...