Return of the French Officer and His Indian Bride to Fort Orleans, (painting)
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Object Details
- painter
- Blumenschein, Ernest Leonard 1874-1960
- Subject
- Du Bois
- Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed.
- Summary
- This lunette, one of twenty-two along the second floor corridor, depicts French officer Du Bois standing beside his Missouri Indian princess bride dressed in an elegant Parisian gown surrounded by her fellow Missouri Indians. The Indian princess and a small group of the Missouri Indians have just returned Fort Orleans from a trip to the French Court, where the young French officer Du Bois fell in love with the Indian princess and married her. The scene takes place along the Missouri River at Fort Orleans built by French explorer Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont, who organized the small party of Missouri Indians and took them to visit the French Court.
- Culture
- French
- Indian
- Ca. 1917-1928
- Control number
- IAP 27620058
- Type
- Paintings-Mural
- Paintings-Lunette
- Paintings
- Owner/Location
- Missouri State Capitol 2nd floor corridor Jefferson City Missouri 65101
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- Topic
- History--United States--Missouri
- Landscape--Missouri
- Architecture exterior--Military--Fort
- Architecture exterior--Military--Fort Orleans
- Figure group
- Portrait male
- Ethnic
- Ethnic--Missouri
- Record ID
- siris_ari_362750
- Metadata Usage (text)
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