| Date: | 1890 |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/l "F. Schafer 1890", fraktur hand |
| Verso: | said to be titled |
| Provenance: | With Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, 6 October 1988. |
| Reproductions: | 6 October 1988 sale catalog 3983P/P39, lot 4008 |
| Site: | Looking across the Merced River and Bridal Veil Meadow, toward Bridal Veil Fall and Cathedral Rocks, with Half-Dome in the distance, in Yosemite Valley, California. |
| Description: | A wide river flows from the center left to the right front half of the painting. A fisherman stands on the far bank; behind him on the right is a small forest and behind that the waterfall. A dead tree lies at an angle on the right bank; in a break in the conifer forest on the left bank stands another dead tree. The background on the left consists of hazy mountains. (From a monochrome photograph.) |
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