Mountain Landscape (from Sketchbook)
1890
Medium
Graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (12.1 x 19.7 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Beqest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995
Accession Number
1995.379.4i verso
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Art Historical Context
Albert Bierstadt, a leading of the Hudson River School, renowned for his dramatic, luminist landscapes that romanticized the untamed beauty of the American West. Created in 1890, *Mountain Landscape (from Sketchbook)* offers a rare glimpse into the artist's preparatory process. At just 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, this intimate graphite drawing on wove paper captures the majesty of towering peaks, likely inspired by Bierstadt's expeditions to the Rockies and Sierra Nevada during the mid-19th century. Though small, it embodies his signature focus on nature's sublime scale. Graphite's versatility allo...
About the Artist
Albert Bierstadt · 1830–1902
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was a German-American landscape painter renowned for his monumental, luminous depictions of the American West. As a prominent member of the second generation of the Hudson River School and the Rocky Mountain School, Bierstadt created sweeping panoramas that captured the sublime grandeur of untamed wilderness with unprecedented theatrical scale and romantic vision. His ...