Mountain Scene
Albert Bierstadt
1880–90
Medium
Oil on paper
Dimensions
14 3/4 x 21 in. (37.5 x 53.3 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. J. Augustus Barnard, 1979
Accession Number
1979.490.2
Tags
MountainsLandscapes
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 ...