Moth

Details

ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Moth
signed and dated 'Albert Bierstadt/Dec 16⁄90' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
image, 3 ¾ x 6 ½ in. (9.5 x 16.5 cm.);
overall, 7 ¼ x 9 ¾ in. (18.4 x 24.8 cm.)
Executed in 1890.

Provenance

The artist.
Frank and Sarah Bloom, Trinidad, Colorado, gift from the above.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

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Lot Essay

In 1890, Albert Bierstadt executed a group of butterfly and moth watercolors during a tea party at the Bloom Mansion in Trinidad, Colorado. Members of the party included the mansion's owner, cattle baron Frank G. Bloom and his wife Sarah, to whom Bierstadt gifted the present example along with lot 302. Both paintings have descended in the Bloom family ever since.

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