Expanding Horizons

 Picking up where I left off yesterday, here we have The Chaudiere by Cornelius Krieghoff, an 1858 painting that depicts a mighty waterfall on the Ottawa River not too far upstream from the National Gallery. I'll have to get over there in late April or early May to see if I can get views of the falls in spring conditions. They look different now- there's a ring dam regulating the flow- but some of the features in the painting can still be seen today.

More waterfalls by Krieghoff. The Passing Storm, Saint-Ferreol is an 1854 work, while The Saint Anne Falls dates to 1855.

Back into the main galleries, more examples of silver.

Two paintings hang side by side, partially sharing a title. They are 1840 paintings by Robert C. Todd. This one is The Timber And Shipbuilding Yards Of Allan Gilmour at Wolfe's Cove, Quebec, Viewed From The West.

Its counterpart shows the same place, with the different subtitle Viewed From The South.

A striking portrait, Josephte Ourne is by Joseph Legare, and dates around 1840, depicting a daughter of an indigenous chief.

Paul Kane went out west, and his sketches were later transferred to vivid canvases. Here we have Fort Garry and St. Boniface, where today Winnipeg exists. This dates circa 1851-56.

Another work by Kane, this is Big Snake, Chief Of The Blackfoot Indians, Recounting His War Exploits To Five Subordinate Chiefs, also from the same period.