A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
1866 oil painting by Albert Bierstadt / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is an 1866 landscape oil painting by German-American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) which was inspired by sketches created on an 1863 expedition.
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Artist | Albert Bierstadt |
Year | 1866 (1866) |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 210.8 cm × 361.3 cm (83 in × 142.25 in) |
Location | Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn |
Website | Collections: American Art |
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Bierstadt traveled to the Colorado Rocky Mountains where he was taken up to the Chicago Lakes beneath Mount Blue Sky. The painting is named after Bierstadt's mistress and, at the time, his friend's wife, Rosalie Osborne Ludlow. The painting, measuring at 210.8 × 361.3 cm (83.0 × 142.2 in), is exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, which acquired it in 1976.[citation needed]