The Last of the Buffalo, 1891

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Medium

photogravure in black with chine collé on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 40.96 × 69.22 cm (16 1/8 × 27 1/4 in.)

sheet: 84.14 × 107.95 cm (33 1/8 × 42 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)

Accession Number

2015.19.3216

Artists / Makers

Albert Bierstadt (artist) American, 1830 - 1902

Boussod et Valadon (printer) French, est. 1884 - closed 1919

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Inscription

upper right in plate: Copyright 1891 by Albert Bierstadt; lower right in plate: Albert Bierstadt; lower right in graphite: Senator Sherman / with Compliments of / Albert Bierstadt

Provenance

John Sherman, Washington, DC, c. 1891; private collection, Norristown, Pennsylvania; private collection, Florida; (Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2002; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Lampert, Richard

Bibliography

1991: Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber. Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1990, p. 286, no. 81, fig. 130.