Collection Highlights
Physician's saddlebags w/bottles & bundles
1800-1850
1954.11
Leather, metal, glass, paper
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Luce Center
Cachasunghia, Osage Warrior
Title
Cachasunghia, Osage Warrior
Date
c. 1804-06
Medium
Charcoal with stumping, Cont
Dimensions
Overall: 23 x 17 in. ( 58.4 x 43.2 cm )
Credit Line
Elizabeth DeMilt Fund
Object Number
1860.90
Marks
inscription: lower left, graphite: "Cachasunghia/guerrier Osage"
inscription: left: "Casachugia/osage warriors"
Inscriptions
Inscribed along left edge vertically in graphite: "Casachungia Osage Warrior"; at lower left: "Cachasunghia / guerrier Osage"; at lower right: "Cachasunghia / guerrier Osage"
Gallery Label
The subject of this portrait was one of five Osage chiefs invited by President Jefferson to Washington in 1806. Saint-M
Provenance
Artist's family; purchased from Elias Dexter of New York from the artist's descendants in Dijon through his agent James B. Robertson; deposited at N-YHS 1860; purchased 1861
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
