Albert Bierstadt, 1859 - Studies of Indian Chiefs Made at Fort Laramie - fine art print

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Bierstadt arrived at Fort Laramie, in present-day Wyoming, as a member of the expedition to the western portion of the Nebraska Territory with Colonel Frederic W. Lander in June 1859, during a time of tense relations between the Western Sioux (Teton) and the United States government. Bierstadt made vivid field sketches of the Indians he encountered there, including this powerful depiction of the heads of four chiefs. The artist intently observed and recorded the costume and physiognomy of each man, inscribing each one’s name below his head. In the foreground of the major painting that resulted from this trip, "The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak" (07.123), several of the male figures at the lower right may have been inspired by the present study.

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The 19th century painting was painted by the romanticist artist Albert Bierstadt in 1859. The over 160 year old original version measures the exact dimensions: 13 x 16 7/8 in (33 x 42,9 cm). Oil and graphite on paper was used by the North American painter as the technique for the piece of art. Besides, the artwork can be viewed in in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. We are pleased to reference that this masterpiece, which belongs to the public domain is supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Adrienne Arsht, Stainman Family Foundation Inc., and Charles and Jane Klein Family Fund Gifts, 2012. Creditline of the artwork: Purchase, Adrienne Arsht, Stainman Family Foundation Inc., and Charles and Jane Klein Family Fund Gifts, 2012. The alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a side ratio of 4 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter Albert Bierstadt was a North American artist from United States, whose art style can mainly be assigned to Romanticism. The American painter was born in the year 1830 in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and passed away at the age of 72 in the year 1902 in Irving, Chautauqua county, New York state, United States.

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