View of Florence

Thomas Cole made a small pencil sketch of this view of Florence shortly before sunset on his visit to Italy in 1831. Six years later, in his New York studio, he turned it into this large oil painting, adding picturesque figures and goats in the foreground. The novelist Henry James grew up with the painting and called its foreground monk his “constant friend.”

Printed on 200 gsm museum-quality matte paper from the museum’s high-resolution open-access image, with a white border so nothing of the original is cropped. Available from A4 up to 70 × 100 cm, or as a digital download to print yourself.

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