Two people on horseback stand in the foreground of a vast, snow-covered mountain landscape.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Two people on horseback stand side by side on green and brown grass in the foreground of a snow-covered mountain landscape. The figure on the right has their arm raised and is pointing towards the upper left-hand corner of the image. The white mountains beyond them take up most of the image. Large, white, billowing clouds envelope the tops of the mountains. The sky behind the clouds is bright blue.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.121
People
Albert Bierstadt, American (Solingen (near Dusseldorf), Germany 1830 - 1902 New York, NY)
Title
In the Rockies
Other Titles
Former Title: Indians on Horseback
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1863
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/320113

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on paper
Dimensions
33 x 48.3 cm (13 x 19 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: "A Bierstadt" (AB in monogram)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Chapellier Gallery, New York, 1967; Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2007.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.121
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Country Art Gallery, The Look of America, exh. cat. (Locust Valley, NY, 1976), cat.
  • Carol Troyen, A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, exh. cat., The Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, NY, 1977), cat. 4, ill.
  • Thomas W. Lentz, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2006-7, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2008), p. 19, ill.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights
  • Google Art Project

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