Albert Bierstadt

Elk in Oak Grove (Tuolumne Meadows)

Auction Closed

November 22, 10:23 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of the Townshend Family

Albert Bierstadt

1830 - 1902

Elk in Oak Grove (Tuolumne Meadows)

signed ABierstadt (lower right)

oil on canvas

canvas: 36 ½ by 52 ⅝ inches (92.7 by 133 cm)

framed: 41 by 57 inches (104.1 by 144.8 cm)

Painted circa 1875.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné database. We thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance cataloguing this lot.

Mrs. Henry H. Townshend, New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1950s
By descent to the present owner