National Gallery of Art · Painting
A Dog Feast - Sioux
George Catlin
- Date
- 1861/1869
- Medium
- oil on card mounted on paperboard
- Dimensions
- overall: 47.3 x 63.8 cm (18 5/8 x 25 1/8 in.)
- Classification
- Painting
- Accession number
- 1965.16.8
- Credit line
- Paul Mellon Collection
- Time span
- 1851 to 1875
- Department
- CAB
Subjects and terms
- painted surface
- American
- American Paintings, Catlin
- Sioux
- Dog Feast
- North American Indian
- genre
Provenance
George Catlin [1796-1872]; by descent to his daughters, Clara Gregory Catlin, Louise Catlin Kinney, and Elizabeth Wing Catlin; purchased 1912 from Elizabeth Wing Catlin by the American Museum of Natural History; sold 1959 through (Kennedy Galleries, New York) to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1965 to the NGA.
Inscription
lower left on card: A/96; upper center on board on applied paper: 189; upper center reverse in graphite circled: 189; upper left reverse in graphite: VAR; lower right reverse in orange crayon: 5; center reverse in blue crayon partially obscured by AMNH label: #1 [?];
NGA object ID 50316. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.