View of Florence

Cleveland Museum of Art

View of Florence

Thomas ColeLinkedCulture matchlcp-02f3c599b651

Date
1837
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
America
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
136911

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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. Novelist Henry James grew up with this painting and described its foreground monk as his “constant friend.”

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Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance
1961-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1960-1961: (Victor Spark, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | Until 1960: 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 | By 1854-?: Henry James, Sr. [1811-1882], New York, NY1 | By 1848-before 1854: Edward James, New York, NY, probably to his brother, Henry James, S1 | by 1839: Jonathan Mason, Boston1 | 1838-1839?: Possibly Mr. Hunt, Boston1

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