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The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
is an 1863 oil painting by the painter
Albert Bierstadt
. Based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels, it shows
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
was an immediate critical and popular success, selling in 1865 for $25,000. It is now held by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York.
Painting:
Albert Bierstadt
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