Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California, 1878, Made in San Francisco, California, United States, Oil on canvas, 48 ? 72 1/4 in. (121. 9 ? 183. 5 cm), Paintings, Jules Tavernier (American, born France, 1844?1889), Parisian-trained artist Jules Tavernier settled in San Francisco, in the 1870s, where he received his most important commission from Tiburcio Parrott, the city?s leading banker. During a visit from his Parisian business partner Baron Edmond de Rothschild, in 1876, Parrott was able to obtain entry to a sacred ritual in the Pomo Indian?s underground roundhouse at Clear Lake, north of San Francisco