The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt. It is based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels with Frederick W. Lander's
Albert Bierstadt The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Lander's Peak has often been compared to Frederic Edwin Church's The Heart of the Andes
The Heart of the Andes
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The Heart of the Andes is a large oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church. It depicts an idealized landscape in the South American Andes, where Church traveled on
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
…in the Wyoming Range of the Rocky Mountains, with an encampment of Native Americans in the foreground. It has been compared to, and exhibited with, The Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church. Lander's Peak immediately became a critical and popular success and sold in 1865 for $25,000. Hudson River School landscape…
Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo (Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1810)
There is no photographic record of the 1859 exhibition of The Heart of the Andes; its exhibition in 1864 is pictured. The overhanging portraits and handrails were added for its inclusion in the fine art gallery at New York's Metropolitan Sanitary Fair.
The 1862 engraving by Charles Day & Son. 34.4 x 63.2 cm