From a stormy wooded hilltop on the left, the view opens onto a sunlit valley where a river makes a wide loop through fields as the storm retreats.

The Sublime

The Oxbow

Thomas Cole

artist Thomas Cole

date 1836

medium Oil on canvas

origin The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

dimensions 130.8 × 193 cm

credit line Thomas Cole. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Open Access, CC0 1.0

exhibitions The Sublime

hall 01 The Sublime

rights CC0 1.0

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