Osage Warrior (1805–7), a watercolor with pencils by French aristocrat Saint-Mémin. From 1803 to 1810, he worked in the eastern United States as an itinerant artist. He was in the nation’s capital in 1804–6 when delegations of Native Americans whose lands had been acquired by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase came to Washington to meet President Jefferson and discuss trade relations. Saint-Mémin’s fifteen portraits of native Plainsmen are not only the most ethnographically correct but also the earliest known portraits of these tribes.
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