Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed boot shaped pipe tamper I think they're really beautiful

I  think they're really beautiful

and while I'm not sure

painted white on one side

What I really like here is the play between that horizontal stretch of draping

I wish I had every plate in it as I think the drawings are extraordinary

Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed boot shaped pipe tamper I think they're really beautifulA strange one! There seems to be a long history of rooster paintings, cock fight paintings included, though I have not been able to put a finger on the precise origins of the genre. This one oil on unstretched canvas, framed under glass I found in Maine, and believe dates to the late 19th early 20th c., with the frame perhaps original to it. And it certainly seems allegorical to me, though I'm not sure I understand all of its implications! The pair of