Trappists Hill Opposite St. Louis

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Trappists Hill Opposite St. Louis

Date

June 11, 1834

Dimensions

10 × 12 9/16 in. (25.4 × 31.9 cm)

Medium

Graphite and ink on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.226

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

In St. Louis, Maximilian met Kenneth McKenzie, principal shareholder in the Northwest Fur Company, and Pierre Chouteau of the American Fur Company. At the house of Major Benjamin O'Fallon, Clark's nephew, he inspected a collection of paintings by George Catlin, who the year before had visited the trading posts on the upper Missouri and painted portraits among the Indians of that region. In his journal for June 11 1834, during the return visit to St. Louis, Maximilian mentions having crossed to the eastern side of the Mississippi to visit the Cahokia site, Trappists Hill, and other Indian mounds in that vicinity; he notes there that "Mr. Bodmer made sketches of a few of them with the greatest speed." This view of Trappists or Monks Hill is undated, but probably was made at this time.

References in Journal

June 11, 1834

Labels:

structure , St. Louis, Missouri

Approximate Depicted Location:

Monk's Mound, Cahokia Mounds World Heritage Site, Illinois