Le Grand Chasseur (Hunting Scene)

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Le Grand Chasseur (Hunting Scene)
Le Grand Chasseur (Hunting Scene)
Artist/Maker (Haitian, 1893 - 1977)
Datemid 1950s
MediumOil on masonite
DimensionsComposition: 20 × 23 in. (50.8 × 58.4 cm) Frame: 24 1/8 × 27 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (61.3 × 68.9 × 3.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Richard F. Plotka, Class of 1956
Object number1981.14
On view
DescriptionTwo women carrying vaious objects encounter a man ith a rifle and his dog on a path, with trees on the sides
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Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).

1985
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Gallery II). July 9 - September 8, 1985 (no cat.).
Provenance 1981: Hamilton College (Root Art Center), by gift of Richard F. Plotka.
Signature LR: "Seneqe Obin Cap Haitien"
Henri Christophe Roi D'Haiti (Henry Christophe, King of Haiti)
Henri Christophe Roi D'Haiti (Henry Christophe, King of Haiti)
Sénèque Obin
Date: early 1960s
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.13
Funerailles Maconnaire
Funerailles Maconnaire
Sénèque Obin
Date: early 1960s
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.15
Interior
Interior
Télémaque Obin
Date: likely no earlier than mid-1960s
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.16
with frame. Photograph by John Bentham.
Blast Furnace
Edmund Lewandowski
Date: 1946
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Object number: 1963.2
Photo by John Bentham.
Seminole Child with Bittern
William H. Beard
Date: 1878
Medium: Oil on canvas, mounted on masonite
Object number: 1971.1
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Wood Road
Fairfield Porter
Date: 1969
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 2022.13
Village Scene (Rizodva)
Village Scene (Rizodva)
Gervais Emmanuel Ducasse
Date: likely 1950s or 1960s
Medium: Oil on masonite (or gesso board)
Object number: 1981.11
Photo by John Bentham.
Vodou Scene
Préfète Duffaut
Date: 1950-1959
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.12
Hunting Dog with Bird
Hunting Dog with Bird
Flora Winegar Brigham
Date: c. 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1997.10.6
Cock
Cock
Sisson Blanchard
Date: likely 1950s or 1960s
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.10
Cockfight
Cockfight
Pauléus Vital
Date: 1971
Medium: Oil on masonite
Object number: 1981.17
Dark Abstract II
Dark Abstract II
Thurloe Conolly
Date: 1949
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Object number: 1989.8