Studies of Native American Leaders Made at Fort Laramie
ca. 1859
Medium
Oil and graphite on paper
Dimensions
13 x 16 7/8 in. (33 x 42.9 cm)
Classification
Oil study
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Adrienne Arsht, Stainman Family Foundation Inc., and Charles and Jane Klein Family Fund Gifts, 2012
Accession Number
2012.1
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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 ...