Chapter 3 focuses on grotesque representations whose contemplation provokes in the viewer a mixture of horror, pity, and laughter. The buffoon is the main figure related to the grotesque, an iconographic motif with a long tradition in Western visual culture. The representation of three persons of African ancestry are analyzed and, taken as a whole, they can be thought of as a compendium of many of the traits that are related racial hierarchies. In the cases of Rosas’s buffoons, Biguá and Eusebio, they were circumscribed to the role of jesters, which not only implies playing the role of entertainers but is also related to other characteristics of the grotesque: madness, deformity, diabolic and comical connotations. In the case of Mendizábal, a specific portrait becomes a grotesque image that confines the person portrayed, and by extension all Afro-descendants, to an enslaved past, without the possibility of becoming protagonists of their present or their future. In these stereotypical images, prejudices and general beliefs are manifested, in tune with the racist ideology present throughout the nineteenth century, more prominently among those who forged the project of the Argentine nation.