ID 1360548 
Lot 356  | ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000 
Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
signed with conjoined initials and dated 'ABierstadt./61' (lower right)
oil on board
9 x 13 in. (22.9 x 33 cm.)
Painted in 1861.
Provenance
(Possibly) Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
George F. McMurray, Glendale, California, by 1964.
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York.
(Probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Exhibited
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century: The George F. McMurray Collection, November 30, 1960-January 4, 1961, p. 12, no. 2.
Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Albert Bierstadt, 1830-1902: A Retrospective Exhibition, August 5-September 13, 1964, n.p., no. 17.
Further Details
We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot. This work is included in the database being compiled for her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
| Artist: | Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Artist: | Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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