View of Florence (Q16934583)

Label from: English (en)

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artist: Thomas Cole (Q334001)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
country of origin: United States of America (Q30)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
location of final assembly: United States of America (Q30)
depicts: Florence Cathedral (Q191739) house (Q3947) Arno (Q115457) Ponte Vecchio (Q208633) goat (Q2934) Palazzo Vecchio (Q271928) Ponte Santa Trinita (Q545578) tree (Q10884)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.39

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: 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

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