A Rustic Mill
Print detail, actual size
To scale 31 x 25 in on the wall
Representative Hand-applied gesso embellishment
About the Artwork
Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, in 1830 and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He returned to Europe in the early 1850s to study at the Dusseldorf Academy, where he absorbed the meticulous naturalism and atmospheric finish that defined the school's approach to landscape. Works such as A Rustic Mill reflect that formative period and the mill scenes he encountered in the German and English countryside, subjects that he revisited throughout his career as a counterpoint to the heroic American sublime. Bierstadt belongs firmly to the Hudson River School: even in a modest European pastoral, his characteristic luminist preoccupation with light as the organizing principle of the picture is unmistakable, the sky and the distant valley acting as a light source that draws the eye through the composition. The picture speaks to the period's broader Romantic investment in picturesque rural industry, the mill as a symbol of harmony between human labour and the natural world, before industrialization severed that relationship.
Product Specifications
- Finished size
- 31 x 25 in
- Frame
- Gold, premium resin, mitred
- Canvas
- Heavyweight Fredrix poly/cotton
- Finish
- Hand-applied gesso embellishment
- Inks
- Archival HP Latex, 100-year colorfastness
- Stretcher
- Solid poplar, kiln dried
- Hanging
- Wire and dust cover fitted
- Item
- 014521
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