Radisson and Groseilliers

Frederic Remington

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Work Overview

Radisson and Groseilliers
Remington, Frederick
1905
H: 17.125 in, width: 30.125 in


The American artist Frederic Remington captured the explorers Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart, sieur de Groseilliers, in this painting, a rather unusual portrayal of a bark canoe in calm, shallow waters. Radisson and Groseilliers were brothers-in-law who established the trading routes in the seventeenth century that were later used by the Hudson’s Bay Company.