Albert Bierstadt
The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
signed ABierstadt (lower right)
oil on canvas
39 ⅞ by 31 in.
101 by 78.7 cm.
Executed circa 1872-73.
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Details
signed ABierstadt (lower right)
39 ⅞ by 31 in.
101 by 78.7 cm.
Provenance
George Victor Drogo Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester and Consuelo Yznaga, Huntingdonshire, England (acquired as a gift from the artist on 22 May 1876)
Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester, Huntingdonshire, England (acquired by descent from the above)
Kimbolton School, Huntingdonshire (acquired from the above circa 1949)
Charles Bedell, Jr., Amsterdam and New York (acquired from the above in 1974)
Charles Bedell III, Denver (acquired by descent from the above)
Mikkel Saks, Denver
Acquired from the above in November 2020 by the present owner
Exhibition
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1879
Literature
“Lord Mandeville’s Wedding,” New York Times, vol. 25, no. 7703, 23 May 1876, p. 8
“Minor Topics,” The Art Journal, vol. 5, July 1879, p. 142
Nancy Anderson and Linda S. Ferber, Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise, New York, 1990, p. 227
Simon Schama, “America’s Verdant Cross,” Wilson Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 39-40
Catalogue Note
This work is included in the database for the Albert Bierstadt Catalogue Raisonné Project and is accompanied by a letter of opinion from Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt Catalogue Raisonné Project.