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品名（中）	落基山脉，兰德峰
品名（英）	The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
入馆年号	1907年，07.123
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Albert Bierstadt【1830 至 1902】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1863
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尺寸	73 1/2 x 120 3/4 英寸 (186.7 x 306.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	出生于德国的阿尔伯特·比尔斯塔特的这幅油画和其他流行的油画塑造了美国西部在美国和国外的视觉身份。1859年初，他陪同弗雷德里克·W·兰德率领的政府调查探险队前往内布拉斯加领地。到了夏天，一行人已经到达了今天怀俄明州落基山脉的风河山脉。这幅作品是在比尔斯塔特旅行归来后在纽约绘制的，根据明确的命运学说，这幅作品将这片风景宣传为白人定居者注定要拥有的边界。这种认为美国人是大陆上神圣的"主人"的信念，系统地忽视了土著人口的存在，造成了可怕的后果，比如照片前景中描绘的肖松尼人。这幅不朽的画作公开展出，获得了极大的赞誉，使比尔斯塔特成为杰出的风景画家弗雷德里克·埃德温·丘奇（Frederic Edwin Church）的主要竞争对手（例如，见09.95）。1865年，居住在伦敦的美国人詹姆斯·麦克亨利（James McHenry）以当时惊人的25000美元买下了这幅作品。比尔斯塔特后来把它买了回来，并把它送给或卖给了他的兄弟爱德华阅读这部作品的本土视角。
介绍（英）	This and other popular canvases by the German-born Albert Bierstadt shaped the visual identity of the American West in the United States and abroad. In early 1859 he accompanied a government survey expedition, headed by Frederick W. Lander, to the Nebraska Territory. By summer, the party had reached the Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains in present-day Wyoming. Painted in New York after Bierstadt’s return from these travels, this work advertised the landscape as a frontier destined to be claimed by White settlers, according to the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. This belief that Americans were the divinely ordained "masters" of the continent systematically ignored with dire consequences the presence of Indigenous populations, such as the Shoshone peoples depicted in the picture’s foreground. Publicly exhibited to great acclaim, this monumental painting established Bierstadt as a key competitor of the preeminent landscape painter, Frederic Edwin Church (see, for example, 09.95). It was purchased in 1865 for the then-astounding sum of $25,000 by James McHenry, an American living in London. Bierstadt later bought it back and gave or sold it to his brother Edward. Read a Native Perspective on this work.