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    Interior of a Library, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter.
    Title: 
    Interior of a Library, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1886.
    Medium: 
    Oil on paper mounted on aluminum.
    Dimensions: 
    19 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. (50.2 x 36.8 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) ABierstadt signed
    Description: 
    Interior scene of a large library with a chandelier hanging from a tall ceiling above, a long window in the background, and a woman with a book in her lap seated in the left foreground.
    Subject: 
    Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House
    Architecture interior -- Domestic -- Library
    Figure female -- Full length
    Recreation -- Leisure -- Reading
    Object -- Written Matter -- Book
    Architecture interior -- Detail -- Window
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Accession Number: 62.260
    Provenance: 
    Gift of Karolik, Maxim,
    References: 
    "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. 20.
    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. CL-97.
    Hendricks, Gordon "A Bierstadt," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972, no. 81.
    Illustration: 
    Coll.catalog,"Am Ptgs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston",1969,p.247.
    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. 20.
    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. CL-97.
    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 20490139
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