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    The Ambush, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter.
    Title: 
    The Ambush, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1870-1875.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    30 x 50 1/2 in. (76.2 x 128.3 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) A Bierstadt signed
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Road
    Architecture -- Vehicle -- Wagon
    Animal -- Horse
    Travel -- Land
    Figure group
    Ethnic -- Indian
    State of Being -- Evil -- Danger
    Western
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Accession Number: 47.1226
    Provenance: 
    Bequest of Karolik, Maxim,
    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.
    Baigell, Matthew, "Albert Bierstadt," New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981, pl. 21.
    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. 78, CL-93.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Baigell, Matthew, "Albert Bierstadt," New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981, pl. 21.
    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. 102.
    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 20490129
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