Fighting Polar Bears

Three men with spears and knives in a small boat fighting attacking polar bears. Icebergs in the background.

Biard was a French painter and explorer who travelled with different expeditions to exotic locations like the Northern Scandinavia and Svalbard, and also the Amazon. He often painted dramatic scenes from these expeditions and used his imagination to make the paintings seem more exotic, like in this highly dramatized scene. In reality, polar bears are solitary animals and do not attack in packs, especially not while swimming.