Fur Traders Descending the Missouri | George Caleb Bingham | 1845 Size:24"x18" the French painter Ferdinand Knab

the French painter Ferdinand Knab (1834–1902) presents a quiet

and symbolic landscape

Bruno Liljefors' Swans in Reeds (1907) captures a serene moment of two swans gliding through a quiet

reflecting part of the room

Her dropped flowers and discarded mandolin hint at past attempts to engage him

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri | George Caleb Bingham | 1845 Size:24"x18" the French painter Ferdinand KnabOne of Bingham's most famous paintings, this work is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Painted around 1845 in the style called luminism by some historians of American art, it was originally entitled, French Trader, Half breed Son. The American Art Union thought the title potentially controversial and renamed it when it was first exhibited. It reflected the reality of fur trappers and traders frequently marrying Native American women