Heroic Landscape
Heroic Landscape

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Heroic Landscape,

1831

Nikolaus Meister, German, 1809–1883
y1966-23
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Collection Publications: Earth's Beauty Revealed: The Nineteenth-Century European Landscape

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Title
Heroic Landscape
Dates

1831

Maker
Nikolaus Meister
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
97 x 120 cm (38 3/16 x 47 1/4 in.) frame: 104 x 135.2 x 8.5 cm (40 15/16 x 53 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Felton Gibbons
Object Number
y1966-23
Signatures
Signed and dated, lower left: [...] 1831
Culture
German
Type
oil paintings, paintings
Materials
oil paint, canvas
Subject
landscapes (representations), trees, cliffs, landscapes (environments), ruins, rivers, streams

Durlacher Brothers, New York (in 1966; sold to Felton Gibbons for the Princeton University Art Museum).

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