On the left, we see a shadowy black cat which appears to be a pet since it is on a tether; the central character holds a pouch and a dead duck.
This work was submitted by its artist as a contrasting companion piece to an identically-sized canvas The Concealed Enemy. The background features only a small clump of green foliage in the center. The grizzled character on the right wears a stocking cap and a red shirt while smoking a pipe, while the other character in a blue shirt appears more amicable and sprawls lazily across the center of the canvas. On the left, we see a shadowy black cat which appears to be a pet since it is on a tether; the central character holds a pouch and a dead duck. The two characters depicted are father and son, though the son is half-white. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1932, FTP, name this classic of American genre painting, in which George Caleb Bingham depicts two men peacefully floating down a certain river.
This work was submitted by its artist as a contrasting companion piece to an identically-sized canvas The Concealed Enemy.
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri