Fur Traders Descending the Missouri Bingham, Geroge Caleb. (1811-1879) Realist painting Merchants Riverboats Rivers View This painting It was first called "French-Trader—Half breed Son," but the Art-Union gave it the title by which it is now known. Bingham, whose earliest efforts were portraits, produced a masterpiece of genre painting with little precedent in his oeuvre. The solemn, motionless scene immortalizes the vanished world of the American frontier, constructed for a northeastern audience. 1845 CE 20th century Digital Jpeg2000, 2.40 MB Oil on canvas tra01093 Kathleen Cohen American realist United States Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
Bingham, Geroge Caleb. (1811-1879)
Realist painting
Merchants
Riverboats
Rivers
View
This painting It was first called "French-Trader—Half breed Son," but the Art-Union gave it the title by which it is now known. Bingham, whose earliest efforts were portraits, produced a masterpiece of genre painting with little precedent in his oeuvre. The solemn, motionless scene immortalizes the vanished world of the American frontier, constructed for a northeastern audience.
1845 CE
20th century
Digital
Jpeg2000, 2.40 MB
Oil on canvas
tra01093
Kathleen Cohen
American realist
United States
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC