Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
Lot 51The Ron and Diane Disney Miller Collection

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

Swiss Scene

Closed7 August 2020

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USD 12,500

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Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
Swiss Scene
signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on board
13 ¾ x 18 ¾ in. (34.9 x 47.6 cm.)

Joanne Lyon Gallery, Inc., Aspen, Colorado.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1987.

Specialist note

We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.

The present work likely depicts Lake Geneva, where the fountain known as the Jet d'Eau was first installed in 1886.