The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak

Title: The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
Rights: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public Domain
Creator: Bierstadt, Albert (1830-1902)
Date: 1863 C.E.
Description: This landscape painting shows the Shoshone tribe in the foreground. There are horses, dogs, teepees and tribal members interacting with one another. In the lower right corner of the painting a dead elk or deer is tied to a horse and a crowd of people gathers around a dead bear. A waterfall flows into the nearby lake. There are tall, trees near the figures. In the background are the Rocky Mountains; the peaks have snow on them. This painting is supposed to be an advertisement for the landscape for potential white settlers.
Format: Painting. Oil on Canvas. 73 ½ x 120 ¾ in.
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Contributor: Alexis Nelson
Identifier: 07.123
Subject: Mountains; nature; waterfall; horses; lake; American West; Wyoming; Manifest Destiny; romanticism; Indigenous Americans; Shoshone.
Source: Jpg File. Unknown Photographer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 10/28/21. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10154?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&when=A.D.+1800-1900&what=Canvas&high=on&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=*&offset=20&rpp=20&pos=40