Albert Bierstadt, Estes Park, Long’s Peak, 1877. Oil on canvas; 62 x 98 in. Lent by the Denver Public Library, Western History Department, 35.2008

height: 62 in, 157.4800 cm; width: 98 in, 248.9200 cm; frame depth: 7 1/8 in, 18.0975 cm; frame height: 73 1/2 in, 186.69 cm; frame width: 109 3/4 in, 278.765 cm

BL "Bierstadt" in paint

Petrie Institute of Western American Art

Petrie Institute of Western American Art

This object is currently on view

In the early 1870s, Anglo-Irish nobleman and big game sportsman Lord Dunraven visited Colorado. He found the hunting so good that he eventually commandeered thousands of acres of land around Estes Park. In 1876, Dunraven commissioned Bierstadt to create this painting of his favorite hunting ground. It hung in Adare Manor, Dunraven's family seat in County Limerick, Ireland, until the 1950s, when it came to Denver.

A inicios de la década de 1870, lord Dunraven, un noble angloirlandés adepto a la caza mayor, visitó Colorado. Tan buena encontró allí la caza que terminó por apropiarse de miles de acres aledaños a Estes Park. En 1876, Dunraven encargó a Bierstadt esta pintura de sus tierras de caza favoritas. La obra permaneció en Adare Manor, casa palaciega de la familia de Dunraven en el condado de Limerick, Irlanda, hasta que, en la década de 1950, llegó a Denver.

Artist [1830–1902]; Commissioned by Windham Thomas Windham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven [1841–1926], 1877-78; Passed down to his daughter, Lady Aileen Wyndham-Quin, Countess of Meath [1873–1963]; Passed down to her nephew, Desmond FitzGerald, 28th Knight of Glin, County Limerick [1901–1949]; Mrs. H.R. Milner (formerly Madame Veronica (nee Villiers) FitzGerald, wife of Desmond) [1909–1998], 1949; Purchased by Roger B. Mead [1897–1967], 1955; Gifted to the Denver Public Library, 1956.

• Boston, Massachusetts, December 1877 - January 1878
• Royal Academy, London, 5/6 - 8/5/1878
• "Western Art in Colorado Collections”—Foxley Museum of Western Art, Denver, CO 4/13 - 6/4/1984
• "The Western Spirit: Exploring New Territory in American Art"—Denver Art Museum, 2/26 - 4/30/1989
• Western History Reading Room, Denver Public Library, 1956 - c.1993
• "Landscape as Metaphor"—Denver Art Museum, 5/14 - 9/11/1994
• 5th Floor, Denver Public Library, 1995-2008
• “Discovering America: Art of the Early American West”—Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO, 10/04/2002 - 1/4/2003
• "BackStory: Western American Art in Context"—History Colorado, Denver, CO, 3/18/2017 - 2/11/2018
• “Creating the American West in Art”—Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, 3/5 - 6/27/2021