Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm
1869
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Cleveland Museum of ArtOriginal work, 1868
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Albert Bierstadt — Mount Vesuvius at Midnight Print
Molten lava glows beneath Mount Vesuvius as smoke rises into a dark night sky. Bierstadt sets the volcanic red against blue-grey rock and distant light, giving the scene a dramatic depth.
A fine-art giclée reproduction on 200 gsm uncoated paper. The complete composition is presented with a white paper border. Choose from the available sizes and unframed or framed finishes.
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Paper, size & framing
Fine-art print on 200 gsm enhanced matte paper. Measurements are the paper dimensions, including the white border. Framing adds to the overall dimensions. The artwork keeps its approved composition within those margins. White, natural and dark wood frames are ready to hang with plexiglass.
About the artwork
Molten lava glows beneath Mount Vesuvius as smoke rises into a dark night sky. Bierstadt sets the volcanic red against blue-grey rock and distant light, giving the scene a dramatic depth.
A fine-art giclée reproduction on 200 gsm uncoated paper. The complete composition is presented with a white paper border. Choose from the available sizes and unframed or framed finishes.
- Artist
- Albert Bierstadt
- Artwork
- Albert Bierstadt — Mount Vesuvius at Midnight Print
- Date of work
- 1868
- Museum collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
About Albert Bierstadt
American · 1830–1902
Albert Bierstadt became one of the most successful painters associated with the Hudson River School. His career belonged to a period when American landscape painting took on new scale and public importance. Mountains, lakes and forests provided subjects for an art that joined natural detail to a powerful sense of spectacle, making distant places vivid for viewers.
Bierstadt’s landscapes place carefully observed features within expansive compositions. Trees and rocks lead the eye toward mountains, while water and atmosphere create passages between distances. His paintings belong to a wider nineteenth-century fascination with landscape and national identity. Their grandeur depends on contrast: the small foreground detail makes the great sweep of the view feel larger.
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