Fur Traders Descending the Missouri | George Caleb Bingham | 1845 Size:24"x18" and political longing in 19th-century

and political longing in 19th-century Italy

and symbolic landscape

the French painter Ferdinand Knab (1834–1902) presents a quiet

Her dropped flowers and discarded mandolin hint at past attempts to engage him

combined with his intricate rendering of the trees and foliage

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri | George Caleb Bingham | 1845 Size:24"x18" and political longing in 19th-centuryOne of Bingham's most famous paintings, this work is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Painted around 1845 in the style called luminism by some historians of American art, it was originally entitled, French Trader, Half breed Son. The American Art Union thought the title potentially controversial and renamed it when it was first exhibited. It reflected the reality of fur trappers and traders frequently marrying Native American women