Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115 Accession Number: 47.1258
Date:
After 1880
Notes:
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, "M and M Karolik Collection of American paintings, 1815 to 1865," Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.
"American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1969.
Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 19.
Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, no. 198, CL-96.
"A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964, no. 67.
Hendricks, Gordon "A Bierstadt," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972, no. 79.
Image on file.
Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 19.
Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, pg. 261.
"A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964, no. 67.
(Lower left:) ABierstadt (On back, visible before mounting:) View from the Citadel, Quebec signed
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Summary:
View looking down from the parapet of Quebec's Citadel lined with cannons toward the town below and the sailing ships on the St. Lawrence River. In the foreground there two military men by the edge of the parapet.
