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Nevada Falls, Yosemite, 1872 or 1873. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 39 × 30 in. (99.1 × 76.2 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Nevada Falls, Yosemite
- Artist
- Albert Bierstadt (American, Solingen 1830–1902 New York)
- Date
- 1872 or 1873
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39 × 30 in. (99.1 × 76.2 cm) Framed: 48 1/16 x 39 x 5 1/16 in. (122 x 99.1 x 12.8 cm)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. J. Augustus Barnard, 1979
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1830–1902
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.