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Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825).

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Columbia River served as the central highway for the Pacific Northwest’s booming timber industry. Moving millions of board feet of massive old-growth timber from inland forests to coastal sawmills, and eventually to California’s expanding cities, required extraordinary feats of maritime engineering. What began as simple river driving evolved into giant flat log booms and, ultimately, the world-famous ocean-going Benson rafts.

Portrait of Maria Grigorievna Raevskaya, née Princess Gagarina (1851-1941)

Artist: Ivan Kuzmich Makarov (Russian, 1822-1897)

Date: c. 1870's-1880's

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Depicted Person:

'La Vetta' by Cesare Saccaggi (detail, c.1898)

Jean-François Millet, The Sower (1850), Oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.