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Return of the French Officer and His Indian Bride to Fort Orleans, (painting). Artist:  Blumenschein, Ernest Leonard, 1874-1960, painter. Title:  Return of the French Officer and His Indian Bride to Fort Orleans, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1917-1928. Dimensions:  12 x 6 ft. Description:  This lunette, one of twenty-two along the second floor corridor, depicts French officer Du Bois standing beside his Missouri Indian princess bride dressed in an elegant Parisian gown surrounded by her fellow Missouri Indians. The Indian princess and a small group of the Missouri Indians have just returned Fort Orleans from a trip to the French Court, where the young French officer Du Bois fell in love with the Indian princess and married her. The scene takes place along the Missouri River at Fort Orleans built by French explorer Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont, who organized the small party of Missouri Indians and took them to visit the French Court. Subject:  History -- United States -- Missouri Landscape -- Missouri Architecture exterior -- Military -- Fort Architecture exterior -- Military -- Fort Orleans Figure group Portrait male -- Du Bois, Ethnic -- French Ethnic -- Indian -- Missouri Object Type:  Mural Lunette Painting Owner:  Missouri State Capitol, 2nd floor corridor, Jefferson City, Missouri 65101 References:  Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed. Illustration:  Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed., (Pickard: Report of the Capitol Decoration Commission: pg. 112). Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 27620058   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 27620058 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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