Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed boy shaving A bit of a curious

A bit of a curious one

and I especially love the facial expressions

Carved from one block of wood

It will sit up on its own

Allegorical Rooster Drama with Statue, Strange Antique Oil on Canvas, Framed boy shaving A bit of a curiousA 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