Sketches of Rowboat and Figure Standing in a Rowboat (from Sketchbook)
ca. 1891
Medium
Graphite on wove paper with gilt edges, bound in a leather cover
Dimensions
4 3/4 x 7 3/4 x 7/16 in. (12.1 x 19.7 x 1.1 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995
Accession Number
1995.379.3f verso
Tags
Art Historical Context
Nestled within a petite leather-bound sketchbook with gilt-edged pages, Albert Bierstadt'sSketches of Rowboat and Figure in a Rowboat* (ca. 1891) offers a rare glimpse into the preparatory world of one of America's foremost landscape painters. Bierstadt, a leading figure in the Hudson River, was renowned for his monumental oil paintings capturing the sublime beauty of the American West and wilderness. By the 1890s, later in his career, he turned to intimate graphite sketches like these, rendered on wove paper measuring just 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Ameri...
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 ...