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Seneca Steele, a Great Libertine
George Catlin (born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872)
1831
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 21 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. (55.3 x 42.5 cm)
- Culture
- Seneca Indians
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
George Catlin described Seneca Steele as having a “hatchet in his hand.” The artist probably took this portrait in Washington, in February 1831. (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)
