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View of Florence
Thomas Cole1837
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Cole visited Italy in 1831 and made a small pencil sketch of this vista of Florence shortly before sunset. In his New York studio six years later, he transformed the drawing into this large oil painting, adding picturesque humans and goats to the foreground. Exhibiting <em>View of Florence</em> alongside a painting of the Catskill Mountains in New York in 1837, Cole set out to prove that he had mastered the very different landscapes of the Old and New Worlds.
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- Title: View of Florence
- Creator: Thomas Cole (American, 1801–1848)
- Date Created: 1837
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 125.4 x 186.7 x 9.2 cm (49 3/8 x 73 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.); Unframed: 99.5 x 160.4 cm (39 3/16 x 63 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, (Victor Spark, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), Francis Moro, New York, NY, sold to Victor Spark1, Private collector, New York, NY, sold to Francis Moro1, (Antique store, New York, NY, sold to a private collector)1, Henry James, Sr. [1811-1882], New York, NY1, Edward James, New York, NY, probably to his brother, Henry James, S1, Jonathan Mason, Boston1, Possibly Mr. Hunt, Boston1
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.39
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "T C"
- Fun Fact: Novelist Henry James grew up with this painting and described its foreground monk as his “constant friend.”
- Department: American Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: America, 19th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Collection: American - Painting
- Accession Number: 1961.39
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