4073428 Chief of the Taensa Indians Receiving La Salle, 1847/8 (oil on canvas) by Catlin, George (1796-1872); 42x60.3 cm; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA; (add.info.: The chief of the Taenses Indians receiving Lasalle and his companions in his village, March 20th, 1682 Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-87) French explorer and fur trader in North America, best known for this expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed the whole river basin for Louis XIV and France.).