Mar 21, 2019 - Sale 2502

Sale 2502 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 228
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
BIERSTADT, ALBERT. Autograph Letter Signed, to Thomas Thompson, sending an exhibition catalogue of paintings [not present], offering for purchase a work by Emanuel Leutze featuring Frederick the Great, and inviting him to visit to see the painting. 2 pages, 8vo, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; small hole at upper right with loss of one word of text, moderate scattered staining, folds. New Bedford, 10 July 1858

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"I send you today a catalogue of our exhibition and you will see among the pictures one by Leutze, a picture of Frederick the Great. The picture is one of the very best that Leutze ever painted . . . ."