The image shows a forest scene with dense greenery, trees, and wild boars moving across a glade. The painting features realistic details like leaves and tree trunks, with a color palette of greens, earth tones, and soft browns and reds. Two figures in different attire observe the scene, while another figure stands on a fallen trunk holding a spear.
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A Fight with Peccaries - Caribbe

George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872)

1854/1869

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 45.2 x 61 cm (17 13/16 x 24 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Paul Mellon Collection
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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