Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed boot shaped pipe tamper painted white on one side

painted white on one side

Just a little surface wear to the stained ground--more visible in the photos than in hand

material and surface make this I think a pretty great one

and while I'm not sure

Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed boot shaped pipe tamper painted white on one sideA 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