A Successful Hunt by Henry François Farny is a quiet, reverent portrayal of Native American life, far removed from the violent conquest narratives often found in Western art. In this luminous gouache and watercolor, a procession of Indigenous figures in traditional dress winds through a mountain pass, returning from the day’s work of securing sustenance. The vast, sunlit expanse of the Rocky Mountains rises behind them, captured with Farny’s signature sensitivity to atmospheric light. Rather than dramatizing the hunt itself, the piece honors the calm dignity of communal life—an elegy to a way of being harmonized with the land, just before it was irrevocably altered.