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CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFFHURON INDIAN TRAPPER ON SNOWSHOES, CA. 1859, oil on canvas; signed 11.25 ins x 9.25 ins; 28.6 cms x 23.5 cms Provenance: Walter Klinkhoff Gallery Inc., MontrealPrivate Collection, OntarioLiterature: Dennis Reid, Krieghoff: Images of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1999, page 82.Note: Small oils such as this lot depicting Indian hunters on snowshoes or Indian moccasin and basket sellers are so readily identifiable as Krieghoff, that they can mistakenly be viewed as commonplace. However, while Krieghoff did produce a quantity of such works which appear to be virtually interchangeable, Dennis Reid cautions us that, in fact, such works can and do have “significant variations in the landscape, the clothing, the accoutrements, or direction of movement of the figure.” Reid continues: “Krieghoff’s single figures are stereotypes certainly, but in the portrayal of habitants he not infrequently strives to capture a specific quality of personality rather than a general type.”It is for these seemingly paradoxical qualities - their recognizability and individuality - that these works hold enduring appeal for collectors.