Thomas Cole, 1846 - The Mountain Ford - fine art print

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Painted two years before Cole’s early death, this picture appears to be the record of an entirely imagined vision, with an implied symbolic meaning. The mountain in the center, with light at its summit and shadow at its base, dwarfs and dominates the forest around it. Civilization has laid no mark on pure nature. Just at the edge of a murky body of water, however, a horseman appears on a hesitating white mount, pausing momentarily before plunging in to ford the dark and frightening depths. This confrontation of man and wilderness draws on a long allegorical tradition of the lonely rider journeying through an awesome world.

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In 1846 the American painter Thomas Cole made this artwork. The over 170 years old original was made with the absolute size - 28 1/4 x 40 1/16 in (71,8 x 101,8 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. Nowadays, this work of art is included in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914 (license - public domain). : Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914. Besides, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format and has a ratio of 1.4 : 1, meaning that the length is 40% longer than the width. The painter Thomas Cole was a North American artist, whose style can mainly be classified as Romanticism. The North American artist lived for a total of 47 years, born in the year 1801 in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, county and passed away in the year 1848 in Catskill, Greene county, New York state, United States.

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