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Certaldo, June 6th, '61
Samuel Colman1861
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Colman, a native of Portland, Maine, studied with Asher B. Durand, the leading exponent of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. In 1860/1862, Colman travelled in Italy where he completed this small watercolor sketch in early June, 1861.
Certaldo, a small town south of Florence, is known as the birthplace of Giovanni Boccaccio, the 14th-century poet.
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- Title: Certaldo, June 6th, '61
- Creator: Samuel Colman (American, 1832 - 1920) (?)
- Date Created: 1861
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Samuel Colman (American, 1832 - 1920) (?)
- Provenance: William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Object Type: watercolors
- Medium: watercolor on paper
- Inscriptions: [Inscribed] Lower left: Certaldo, June 6th '61
- Geography: Place Depicted: Certaldo
- Dimensions: H: 3 3/8 x W: 4 3/4 in. (8.5 x 12 cm)
- Credit Line: Acquired by William T. Walters (?)
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.1546
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