View of Florence
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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View of Florence

1837
Thomas Cole (American, born England,1801–1848) visual detail
ArtistThomas Cole (American, born England,1801–1848)
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Provenance

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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

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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

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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (Victor Spark, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 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 Henry James, Sr. [1811-1882], New York, NY1 Edward James, New York, NY, probably to his brother, Henry James, S1 Jonathan Mason, Boston1 Possibly Mr. Hunt, Boston1

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Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). Paintings and Drawings by Thomas Cole. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (January 26-February 28, 1965). Thomas Cole. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY (organizer) (co-organizer) (February 14-March 23, 1969); Munson Museum of Art, Utica, NY (April 5-May 4, 1969); Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY (May 9-June 20, 1969); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (June 30-September 1, 1969). Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). 19th Century Americans in Italy. Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (organizer) (November 3-December 3, 1972). Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (January 29-May 13, 2018); National Gallery, London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (June 13-October 7, 2018). New York, National Academy of Design, Annual Exhibition (1837), cat. no. 39 as View of Florence. Boston, Athenaeum, Annual Exhibition (1839), cat. no. 123, see The Boston Athenaeum: Art Exhibition Index, 1827-1874 (Boston, 1980), p. 38, listed under year 1839 as View on the Arno, Florence, owned by J. Mason. New York, Gallery of the American Art-Union, Exhibition of the Paintings of the Late Thomas Cole, At the Gallery of the American Art-Union (27 March 1848-?), cat. no. 33, catalogue reproduced as Appendix 1in Parry (1988), pp. 368-372. Boston, Atheneum, Annual Exhibition (1850), cat. no. 137, see The Boston Athenaeum: Art Exhibition Index, 1827-1874 (Boston, 1980), p. 38, listed under year 1850 as View on the Arno, Near Florence owned by T.P. Cushing. New York, New York Gallery of Fine Arts, (1 May 1854) cat. no. 61, p. 10, see Index to American Art Exhibition Catalogues. Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Thomas Cole: Paintings by an American Romanticist (26 January-28 February 1965), cat. no. 14. Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Thomas Cole (14 February-23 March 1969); traveled to Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (7 April-4 May 1969); Albany, Albany Institute of History and Art (9 May-20 June 1969); New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (30 June-1 September 1969), cat. no. 32, illus. p. 83. Lawrence, University of Kansas Museum of Art, The Arcadian Landscape: Nineteenth-Century American Painters in Italy (4 November-3 December 1972), cat. no. 12, illus. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910 (7 September-13 November 1983); traveled to Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art (7 December 1983-12 February 1984); did not go to Paris; cat. no. 29, pp. 229-230, illus. p. 229. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760-1914 (16 September-13 December 1992); traveled to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (3 February-11 April 1993); Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (23 May-8 August 1993), cat. no. 76, illus. pp. 330-331, pp. 42-54. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (1/29/2018 - 5/13/2018) and the National Gallery, London, UK (6/13/2018 - 10/7/2018): "Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings"

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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 <em>View of Florence</em> 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.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 9 structured provenance events · 6 structured exhibitions.

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