The Heart of the Andes

Heart of the Andes

Heart of the Andes is an oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church. It was painted in 1859. It measures 66 1/8 x 119 1/4in. (168 x 302.9cm). It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[1]

The Heart Of The Andes Media

Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland at the foot of the Chimborazo (Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1810)
There is no photographic record of the 1859 exhibition of The Heart of the Andes; its exhibition in 1864 is pictured. The overhanging portraits and handrails were added for its inclusion in the fine art gallery at New York's Metropolitan Sanitary Fair.
A watercolor copy prepared for the engraver's use, 1859–1860. 52.1 × 94 cm. National Gallery of Art
William Forrest, after Frederic Edwin Church, The Heart of the Andes, 1862, NGA 74840.jpg

The 1862 engraving by Charles Day & Son. 34.4 x 63.2 cm