Apropos of nothing.
Just an aesthetically wonderful object for consideration.
No subtext.
Gustav A. Dentzel, Rooster, c. 1897, basswood and paint, 53 x 58 x 11 in.

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, 1897, oil on canvas (29 ¼ x 39 ½ in.)
Philadelphia Museum of Art