Mount Vesuvius at Midnight
1868
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902)
American Painting and Sculpture
Mount Vesuvius at Midnight, 1868. Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902). Oil on canvas; framed: 62 x 77 x 9 cm (24 7/16 x 30 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 42.6 x 60.7 cm (16 3/4 x 23 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of S. Livingstone Mather, Philip Richard Mather, Katherine Hoyt (Mather) Cross, Katherine Mather McLean and Constance Mather Bishop 1949.541
- Maker/Artist
- Bierstadt, Albert
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 62 x 77 x 9 cm (24 7/16 x 30 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 42.6 x 60.7 cm (16 3/4 x 23 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower right: ABierstadt / 68 [AB in monogram]
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1949.541
- Credit Line
- Gift of S. Livingstone Mather, Philip Richard Mather, Katherine Hoyt (Mather) Cross, Katherine Mather McLean and Constance Mather Bishop
- Exhibitions
- Visions of Vesuvius, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902 (5 August-13 September 1964), cat. no. 45, illus. as Mount Aetna.<br>Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Visions of Vesuvius (15 April-16 July 1978), no cat. number, listed p. 15, not illustrated. <br>Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760-1914 (16 September-13 December 1992); traveled to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (3 February-11 April 1993); to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (23 May-8 August 1993), cat. no. 53, pp. 213, 229, 276-277, illus. p. 277., The Cleveland Museum of Art (09/ 12/2012 - 01/07/2013 Getty Villa Malibu, CA; 02/24/2013 - 07/07/2013 Cleveland Museum of Art); "The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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