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ALBERT BIERSTADT (American 1830-1902)MatterhornOil on paper laid on board21in. x 17.5in.Initialed lower left: ABAn American artist of German birth Albert Bierstadt was one of the most significant and popular landscape painters in the United States during the second half of the 19th century. He was influenced by both European art and the Hudson River School and ultimately created a new landscape style characterized by evocative monumental vistas. Bierstadt was mainly self-taught and spent some years as a drawing instructor before traveling and studying in Germany Switzerland and Italy from 1853 to 1857. In 1858 he entered the New York art circle submitting a painting of Lake Lucerne to the annual exhibition at the National Academy of Design. In 1859 Bierstadt made his first trip across the American West after which he established a studio in New York and began producing the distinctive monumental western landscape paintings for which he is best known.Following his marriage in 1866 Bierstadt traveled to Europe with his wife Rosalie and made many sketches in Switzerland. Richard Trump who wrote a 1963 dissertation on Bierstadt's life and work records a letter from the artist's wife in 1867: "I am now sitting on a side hill from what place splendid views are obtained of the opposite chain of mountains. Albert is perched nearby on his sketching stool making an oil study of the Jungfrau. He has almost 50 splendid studies." (from a letter in the archives of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston). This excellent oil study of the Matterhorn relates to Bierstadt's painting of the same subject in the Dallas Museum of Art.This painting has been authenticated by Alexander Acevedo of the Alexander Gallery in New York.Provenance: Private Collection NYRoughton Galleries Dallas TXacquired from the above by the present ownerReference: Richard S. Trump Life and Works of Albert Bierstadt diss. (Ohio State University Columbus 1963)
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ANCIENT COINS, Greek, Syria, Cities, Seleucia Pieria, Tetradrachm, 1st Century BC, turreted head of Tyche right, fillet border, rev SO / S S / / , thunderbolt placed on stool, year G (=96/5 BC) beneath, monogram in right field, all within wreath, 14.75g, 12h (SNG Cop 398; SNG Lockett 3204-3205). About very fine/extremely fine.
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INDIAN COINS, Gupta Kings, Samudragupta, Gold Dinar 7.8g, Lyrist type, legend around king, nimbate, wearing necklace, seated left, cross-legged on high-backed couch, plucking strings of vina (lyre), footstool below, rev Samudragupta, goddess seated left on wicker stool, holding cornucopiae and riband, tamgha in field left, orb topped standard in field right (BMC pl V, 8; Bayana pl VI, 5-8). Fine style on compact flan, minor mark, extremely fine.
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INDIAN COINS, Gupta Kings, Kumaragupta I, Gold Dinar 8.3g, Horseman-right type, clear legend around king, the sash of his waistband flowing out behind, seated on horse trotting right, rev Ajitamahendra, the goddess Lakshmi seated left on mohra (wicker stool) holding long-stemmed flower and feeding uncertain fruit to peacock (BMC pl.XIII, 11-14; Bayana pl.XXII, 8-15). Broad flan, some striking weakness, extremely fine.
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