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Capri Beach, (painting). Artist:  Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter. Title:  Capri Beach, (painting). Other Titles:  On the Beach at Capri, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1857. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on composition board. Dimensions:  10 3/4 x 13 in. (27.3 x 33 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) ABierstadt signed Description:  A coastal scene showing a fishing boat pulled up on the beach beside a large group of rocks. Fishing nets are draped over the side of the boat and a fisherman works on one of the nets. Behind him another fisherman works on a basket. Down by the water children play with a toy boat, and out in the sea several fishermen are in boats. Two soldiers on the right look out toward the water. Subject:  Landscape -- Beach Landscape -- Island Landscape -- Italy -- Capri Architecture -- Boat -- Rowboat Figure group Occupation -- Industry -- Fishing Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1947.112 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Bierstadt, Albert, estate of, Rholfs Gallery, Brooklyn, New York John Nicholson Gallery, New York, New York 1947. References:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 103-104. 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-41, Illustration:  Image on file. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, fig. 36. 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-41. 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 06910178   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 06910178 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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