Mountain Lake (Lower Chicago Lake, Colorado)

Mountain Lake (Lower Chicago Lake, Colorado)

1863
Artist
Albert Bierstadt, American, 1830-1902
Born: Solingen, Germany
Object
painting
Medium
Oil on paper on canvas
Accession Number
2012.278
Credit Line
Gift of HRH Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz

Albert Bierstadt, Mountain Lake, 1863. Oil on paper on canvas; 13 x 18 1/2 in.
Denver Art Museum: Gift of HRH Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, 2012.278

Dimensions
frame height: 22 5/8 in, 57.4675 cm; frame width: 28 1/2 in, 72.3900 cm; frame depth: 4 1/2 in, 11.4300 cm; height: 13 in, 33.0200 cm; width: 18.5 in, 46.9900 cm
Inscription
"A Bierstadt" LL corner
Department
Petrie Institute of Western American Art
Collection
Petrie Institute of Western American Art
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
Private Collection; (Sotheby's) New York, NY; (Kallen von Renkl Fine Arts, Inc.) Aspen, CO, 05/22/2002, lot 157; HRH Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, 2002; Gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2012
Exhibition History
  • "BackStory: Western American Art in Context"—History Colorado, 3/18/2017 - 2/11/2018
  • "The Rockies and the Alps: Bierstadt, Calame and the Romance with the Mountains"—Newark Museum, 3/23/2018 - 8/19/2018