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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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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.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

A Fight with Peccaries - Caribbe

George Catlin

Date
1854/1869
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 45.2 x 61 cm (17 13/16 x 24 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
1965.16.260
Credit line
Paul Mellon Collection
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CAB
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • American
  • Fight
  • American Paintings, Catlin
  • Caribbe
  • South American Indian
  • genre
  • Peccaries
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.

NGA object ID 50568. 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.