Albert Bierstadt

Rockies After a Storm

Auction Closed

November 22, 10:23 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of the Townshend Family

Albert Bierstadt

1830 - 1902

Rockies After a Storm

signed ABierstadt, initialed AB and dated '76 (lower right)

oil on paper laid down on board

board: 13 ⅜ by 9 ½ inches (34 by 24.1 cm)

framed: 18 ¾ by 15 inches (47.6 by 38.1 cm)

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

South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Albert Bierstadt & The Legacy of Concern, September-December 2013
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University, Yale University Art Gallery, June 2017-June 2020 (on loan)