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Thomas Cole

View of Florence

1837
oil on canvas
99.5 × 160.4 cm (39.2 × 63.1 in)

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● On view now — 206 American Landscape

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · verified July 2026

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Novelist Henry James grew up with this painting and described its foreground monk as his “constant friend.”

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