
Sunrise on the Matterhorn, from after 1875

by Albert Bierstadt
Title
Sunrise on the Matterhorn, from after 1875
Artist
Albert Bierstadt
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Sunrise on the Matterhorn by Albert Bierstadt, after 1875.
Albert Bierstadt was a German-born American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.
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March 6th, 2017
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