Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed blue bird I really really love the

I really really love the matter of factness of this duck

which somehow really brings it to life

and David Simpson

9 1/4" long x 1 7/8" across at ferrule (where bristles attach to handle

Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed blue bird I really really love theA 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