Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 09.241.1
Date:
1866
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 326.
Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, no. CL-171.
Image on file.
American Art Review (Nov.-Dec.1975), pg. 143.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 327.
Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, no. CL-171.
(Lower right:) ABierstadt / 1866 signed
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Summary:
View looking across the Merced River framed against a background of massive peaks in the Yosemite Valley. In the foreground, horses graze along the hillside that slopes down toward the riverbank, and tiny figures look out at the scenery from a jagged outcropping along the shore. Out in the river there are two figures in rowboat, while two other figures in a rowboat push off from shore.
