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Albert Bierstadt · 1866

A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie

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A thunderstorm breaks over a high mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies: black cloud pours down behind sunlit cliffs and a glacier-capped peak, while small riders and deer cross the green valley below the pines. Brooklyn Museum.

Up to 27.7 × 16 in · landscape

Size

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

27.7″16″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie

Bierstadt made the painting in 1866 from sketches of his 1863 expedition to the Colorado Rockies, where he was taken up to the Chicago Lakes beneath Mount Blue Sky. It is named after Rosalie Osborne Ludlow, the wife of his travelling companion Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whom he later married. The canvas measures 210.8 x 361.3 cm and was acquired by the Brooklyn Museum in 1976.

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

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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