# View of Florence, in Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole painted this in 1837, aged 36. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1837
- Medium: oil on canvas
- 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.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.39
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Thomas Cole](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-cole), American, born England,1801–1848

Cole emigrated from Lancashire to the United States as a teenager and, largely self-taught, made his name in 1825 with views of the Catskill Mountains that launched what became known as the Hudson River School.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Thomas Cole's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-thomas-cole?hang=750) (8 works)
- [More Hudson River School](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/hudson-river-school?hang=750) (27 works)
- [19th-century United States](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-united-states?hang=750) (198 works)

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