In this painting, three men are depicted in a rustic interior space. A man on the far left faces away from us, sitting on the ground and leaning against a wooden block or stool. He wears a gray hat and a brown vest, and a vivid blue blanket is wrapped around him. He is looking up at a man standing upright near the center of the painting. This man is holding a rifle, the bottom of which rests against the ground. This man has light skin with red cheeks, a long, straight nose, and a dark mustache and beard. His dark hair is hidden by a gray hat, and he wears a light gray coat over a darker gray…
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The Trapper's Cabin

John Mix Stanley (American, 1814 - 1872)

1858

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 91.4 × 73.5 cm (36 × 28 15/16 in.) ; framed: 127 × 96.2 × 16.5 cm (50 × 37 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran, 1869)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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