The Last of the Buffalo

Albert Bierstadt, 1888, Corcoran Gallery of Art

‘The Last of the Buffalo’ is a work by Albert Bierstadt (USA, 1830–1902). It is dated 1888. It is part of the collection Corcoran Gallery of Art. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 180 × 301 cm. The work belongs to the genre landscape painting. The things depicted include buffalo, Indigenous peoples of the United States in North America, Cervus canadensis, and coyote.

The catalogue has 249 more works by Albert Bierstadt.