The Departure

Provenance

Commissioned by William P. Van Rensselaer, Esq., Albany. Purchased by 1853 by William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington; gift 10 May 1869 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

The Departure

Cole, Thomas

1837

Accession Number

2014.79.13

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 100.3 × 161.6 cm (39 1/2 × 63 5/8 in.) | framed: 133.4 × 194.6 × 15.9 cm (52 1/2 × 76 5/8 × 6 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)