The Pool, Franconia Mountains, New Hampshire

1860

Charles Bierstadt

Artist, American, born Prussia, 1819 - 1903

Edward Bierstadt

Artist, American, born Prussia, 1824 - 1906

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Artwork overview

Medium

albumen print
Credit Line

Gift of Funds from W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg
Dimensions

image/sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)
mount: 38.4 × 30.2 cm (15 1/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
Accession

2024.42.1

Provenance

(David Hanson); (William L. Schaeffer / Photographs, Chester, CT); NGA purchase, 2024.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2017

East of the Mississippi, National Gallery of Art, Washington; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 2017 - 2018, no. 84.

Inscriptions

lower center on mount printed in black ink: POOL, / Franconia Mountains, N. H. / Photographed by Bierstadt Brothers, New Bedford, Mass. / 218.