Anyone overdoing it on hurricanes, beignets and revelry along Bourbon Street for Mardis Gras February 13, 2024, can find a cultural detox at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
For years, the three children from a well-to-do New Orleans family seemed to be the only figures in a nearly forgotten painting attributed to French artist Jacques Amans. Two of the three Frey children died the very year the painting was made, possibly of yellow fever, and the third child died a few years later.