Paintings
View of Florence
PaintingLandscape
Details
- Author / creator
- Thomas Cole (American, born England,1801–1848)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1837
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 125.4 × 186.7 × 9.2 cm; Unframed: 99.5 × 160.4 cm
- Support
- Canvas
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- United States
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of the Albright Lane Trust, 1961
About this object
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 View of Florence 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.
Materials and technique
Oil on canvas
Signature and marks
Signed lower right: "T C"
