Antoine Robidoux (Original Ottinger painting retouched by Ottinger's son. From Herbert Auerbach collection)
Painting [21.5 cm x 28.5 cm] mounted to an unevenly trimmed mount [25 cm x 30 cm]. Pinholes and light pencil markings and notations along the edges. Fur trapper and trader Antoine Robidoux (1794-1860) was of French-Canadian descent. By the early 1830s, he was forming his own trade route along..... More