According to the artist, the figure on the left was of mixed race.
According to the artist, the figure on the left was of mixed race. The figure on the right also stares at the viewer and is marked by an odd triangular, yellowish-red cap that he wears. The figure on the left rests on a box draped by a blanket with a rifle in the crook of his arm, and to his immediate right lays a dead duck that he had recently shot. His bright blue shirt contrasts with his father's red shirt on the right and with the tied- down black cat on the left, all of which appears in the water's reflection. FTP, name this 1845 painting by George Caleb Bingham.
According to the artist, the figure on the left was of mixed race.
{Fur Traders Descending the Missouri}