The Falls of St. Anthony

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The Falls of St. Anthony
Bierstadt Albert The Falls of St. Anthony.jpg
ArtistAlbert Bierstadt
Year1880 (1880)
MovementHudson River School
SubjectSaint Anthony Falls
Dimensions96.8 x 153.7 cm
LocationThyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
OwnerCarmen Cervera

The Falls of St. Anthony is an 1880 oil landscape painting by the Hudson River School artist Albert Bierstadt. Rather than depict the falls with the spillway, Bierstadt depicted them as they appeared prior to human interference. The painting depicts in its foreground several Native Americans, and a hatted figure with a walking stick, speculated to be Louis Hennepin, discoverer of the falls.[1]

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  1. ^ "The Falls of St. Anthony : ca. 1880 – 1887 : Oil on canvas. 96.8 x 153.7 cm". Museothyssen.org. Retrieved 28 November 2018.


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