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Buffalo Chase, Bulls Making Battle with Men and Horses
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: George Catlin
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A charging bull gores a horse at the centre of this Catlin scene of Plains hunting, now offered as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas.
Description
Description
A bull buffalo has turned mid-flight to gore the horse beneath its rider, and that single collision of horn, hide, and straining muscle is the hinge on which the whole picture turns. Dust rises around the impact in pale ochre strokes, and the eye is pulled there before it registers anything else on the canvas.
About Buffalo Chase, Bulls Making Battle with
George Catlin built the composition outward from that violence. Mounted hunters press in from several directions, their horses at full stretch, while the buffalo herd churns across the middle ground in a mass of brown and grey that thins into haze at the horizon. The palette stays close to earth: umber, dull red, bone white for accents of light on flank and shoulder. Catlin was working from direct observation of Plains life in the 1830s, and that firsthand contact shows in the accuracy of the animals and the plausibility of the danger, rather than in any studied elegance of pose.
Light falls unevenly across the scene, catching a raised lance here, the flare of a nostril there, and leaving other passages in shadow so the action reads as a single unfolding instant rather than a static tableau. The brushwork tightens around the central struggle and loosens toward the edges, a deliberate shift of focus that keeps the composition from flattening into pure documentation. It remains a famous painting from Catlin career precisely because it holds this tension between record and drama.
The hand-painted reproduction
The ByMuseum version of this work is produced as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, not a printed copy. A trained painter works in oil on artist-grade canvas, matching the palette Catlin used and rebuilding the brushwork stroke by stroke, so the raised texture of impasto and the grain of the canvas are physically present on the surface rather than simulated. What arrives is a painted object with its own depth of colour and its own light.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, brushed by a trained artist rather than printed
- Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall it is meant for
- Gallery-ready presentation, finished and ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
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