Merced River, Yosemite Valley
Albert Bierstadt
1866
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
36 x 50 in. (91.4 x 127 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the sons of William Paton, 1909
Accession Number
09.214.1
Tags
RiversMountainsLandscapes
About the Artist
Albert Bierstadt · 1830–1902
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was a German-American landscape painter renowned for his monumental, luminous depictions of the American West. As a prominent member of the second generation of the Hudson River School and the Rocky Mountain School, Bierstadt created sweeping panoramas that captured the sublime grandeur of untamed wilderness with unprecedented theatrical scale and romantic vision. His ...