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Merced River, Yosemite Valley, (painting). Artist:  Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter. Title:  Merced River, Yosemite Valley, (painting). Dates:  1866. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  36 x 50 in. (91.4 x 127.0 cm). Inscription:  (Lower right:) ABierstadt / 1866 signed Description:  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. Subject:  Landscape -- River -- Merced River Landscape -- Valley -- Yosemite Valley Landscape -- Mountain Figure group Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Boating Animal -- Horse Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 09.241.1 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Paton, William, New York, New York 1866-1890. Paton, William Agnew, until 1909. Paton, David, until 1909. Paton, Steward, until 1909. References:  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. Illustration:  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. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36120283   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120283 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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