View of Cotopaxi
Frederic Edwin Church · 1857 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
View of Cotopaxi is a public-domain painting by Frederic Edwin Church, dated 1857. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“View of Cotopaxi” (1857) is one of Church’s exhibition landscapes. He traveled for the studies, then composed the large picture of ice, a volcano, or a sunset back in the studio.
About the artist
Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) was an American landscape painter of the Hudson River School. He traveled to make closely observed studies, then composed large exhibition pictures of volcanoes, icebergs, and sunsets.
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