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Moonlight on the Merced by Albert Bierstadt, 1864 customise_map Easter Island HeadsMoonlight on the Merced by Albert Bierstadt (1864) captures the hush and grandeur of Yosemites Merced River under a veil of night. Painted in oil on canvas by the German born, Massachusetts raised master of the Hudson River School, this nocturne channels the eras Romantic fascination with untamed nature. Moonlight threads through deep shadow and glowing highlights, bathing jagged cliffs, still water, and a quiet shoreline in a sublime, otherworldly