A View near Tivoli (Morning)

Thomas Cole

1832 · Oil on canvas · The American Wing

Born in England, Cole immigrated to the United States when he was seventeen. He later returned to Europe for two extended visits. The landscape of Italy particularly interested him, and he drew on the artistic conventions of European masters such as Claude Lorrain to portray it. In the spring of 1832 Cole sketched in the Roman countryside, but he did not paint this canvas until after he returned to Florence in June. In 1834 he described this work in a letter and identified the architectural ruins as "part of an ancient aqueduct, called ‘Il Arco di Nerone.’"

Artist

Thomas Cole

Date

1832

Medium

Oil on canvas

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1903