Albert Bierstadt · 1863

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Name: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt
Brand: Chromora
SKU: bierstadt-rocky-mountains
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Bierstadt's first major panoramic mountain landscape — a Shoshone encampment dwarfed by a glowing peak. The Met.

Up to 16 × 10 in · landscape

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Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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About this painting

The story of The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt. It is based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels with Frederick W. Lander's Honey Road Survey Party in 1859. The painting shows Lander's Peak in the Wyoming Range of the Rocky Mountains, with an encampment of Native Americans in the foreground. It has been compared to, and exhibited with, The Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church. Lander's Peak immediately became a critical and popular success and sold in 1865 for $25,000.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the westward expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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