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Thomas Cole: The Voyage of Life: Old Age  wikidata:Q19900107 reasonator:Q19900107
Artist
Thomas Cole  (1801–1848)  wikidata:Q334001 q:en:Thomas Cole
 
Thomas Cole
Alternative names
T. Cole; Cole
Description American painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1 February 1801 Edit this at Wikidata 11 February 1848 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bolton le Moors Catskill
Work location
New York
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q334001
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Voyage of Life: Old Age
Series title The Voyage of Life Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre allegory Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1842
date QS:P571,+1842-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 133.4 cm (52.5 in); width: 196.2 cm (77.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,133.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,196.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
Gallery 60
Accession number
1971.16.4
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history between 1845 and May 1846
date QS:P,+1845-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1845-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1846-05-00T00:00:00Z/10
: purchased by George K. Shoenberger (1809-1892), Cincinnati, from Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
after 20 January 1892
date QS:P,+1892-01-20T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1892-01-20T00:00:00Z/11
: estate of Shoenberger

1908: purchased by Ernst H. Huenefeld, Cincinnati
1908: given to Bethesda Hospital and Deaconess Association of Methodist Church of Cincinnati

17 May 1971: purchased by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., through Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York City
Credit line Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Inscriptions bottom edge, left of center: T. Cole / 1842; bottom edge, right of center: Rome
References
Source/Photographer National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection
Other versions

The Voyage of Life, four paintings, second version, Rome 1842 (The first version of 1840 is in the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute)

  • Childhood
    Childhood
  • Youth
    Youth
  • Manhood
    Manhood
  • Old Age
    Old Age
  • Remastered color
    Remastered color

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