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Bierstadt, Albert,
Landscape -- River
Landscape -- Canada
Architecture exterior -- Military
Object -- Weapon
Figure group -- Male
Architecture -- Boat
Painting
St.
Lawrence
River from the Citadel, Quebec, (painting).
Artist:
Bierstadt
,
Albert
, 1830-1902, painter.
Title:
St.
Lawrence
River from the Citadel, Quebec, (painting).
Other Titles:
Saint
Lawrence
River from the Citadel, Quebec, (painting).
Dates:
After 1880.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Oil on paper mounted on canvas.
Dimensions:
22 x 30 1/2 in. (55.9 x 77.5 cm).
Inscription:
(Lower left:) ABierstadt (On back, visible before mounting:) View from the Citadel, Quebec signed
Description:
View looking down from the parapet of Quebec's Citadel lined with cannons toward the town below and the sailing ships on the St.
Lawrence
River. In the foreground there two military men by the edge of the parapet.
Subject:
Landscape -- River -- St.
Lawrence
River
Landscape -- Canada -- Quebec
Architecture exterior -- Military -- Fort
Object -- Weapon -- Cannon
Figure group -- Male
Architecture -- Boat -- Sailing Ship
Object Type:
Painting
Owner:
Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Accession Number: 47.1258
Provenance:
Gift of Karolik, Martha C.,
References:
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, "M and M Karolik Collection of American paintings, 1815 to 1865," Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.
"American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1969.
Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 19.
Hendricks, Gordon, "
Albert
Bierstadt
: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, no. 198, CL-96.
"A Retrospective Exhibition:
Albert
Bierstadt
1830-1902," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964, no. 67.
Hendricks, Gordon "A
Bierstadt
," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972, no. 79.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 19.
Hendricks, Gordon, "
Albert
Bierstadt
: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, pg. 261.
"A Retrospective Exhibition:
Albert
Bierstadt
1830-1902," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964, no. 67.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAP 20490138
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