Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)Figure on Horseback signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower left)oil on paper laid down on board10 3/4 x 9inPainted circa 1859.注脚ProvenanceEllen Messer Seabrook, Washington, Connecticut and New York.By descent to the present owner.We wish to thank Melissa Speidel of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot. This work is included in the database being compiled for her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.A similar work on paper by Albert Bierstadt that also depicts a mounted figure is entitled Mounted Trapper, which is in the collection of Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.