ArtistCole, Joseph Foxcroft
Artist Years1837-1892
Artist NationalityAmerican, French
TitleA Village Street in France
Year1880
MediumPrint > Etching
DimensionsPlate: 4.7 X 8.0 inches
Sheet: 8.6 X 12 inches
Description Original etching, signed “J. Foxcroft Cole” in the plate, lower right, printed on felt-finish, cream laid paper. Published in American Art Review, Vol. I, Estes and Lauriat, Pub., Boston, 1880.
Accession Number721594
NotesJoseph Foxcroft Cole (1837–1892) was an American landscape artist of the Barbizon style of landscape painting.
Cole and fellow apprentice Winslow Homer studied in Boston, before Cole moved to France to study with Émile Lambinet and Charles Jacque in Barbizon. Cole exhibited in Paris at the 1866-67 and 1873-75 Salons, and the Exposition Universelle (1867).
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