Lake Como

Details

ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Lake Como
oil on paper laid down on board
13 ½ x 18 ½ in. (34.3 x 47 cm.)
Painted circa 1867-69.

Provenance

The artist.
Rosalie Osborne Ludlow Bierstadt, Waterville, New York, wife of the above.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 2003, lot 200, sold by the above.
Alexander Gallery, New York, acquired from the above.
Mr. and Mrs. John McGuigan, Harpswell, Maine, acquired from the above.
Beacon Hill Fine Art, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007.

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.

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Lot Essay

Albert Bierstadt and his wife Rosalie married in 1866 and embarked upon a European journey together in 1867, visiting France, Germany and Italy, including Lake Como. The present painting was part of a group of ten works that Bierstadt gifted to his wife, perhaps recalling the couple's fondness for the locale and commemorating their travels.

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