Albert Bierstadt

The Cavalier

Auction Closed

January 24, 03:52 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Albert Bierstadt

1830 - 1902

The Cavalier

initialed AB (lower left)

oil on paper laid down on board

board: 19 1/4 by 13 3/4 inches (48.9 by 34.9 cm)

Painted circa 1853.

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.

Ellen R. Lempereur, Weston, Massachusetts
Vose Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Private collection, 1947 (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owner

Gordon Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West, no. 6, pp. 17-18, illustrated