ArtistCole, Joseph Foxcroft
Artist Years1837-1892
Artist NationalityAmerican, French
TitleThree Cows
Year1883
MediumPrint > Etching
DimensionsPlate: 8.6 X 11.6 inches
Sheet: 11.5 X 14.2 inches
Description Original etching, signed in pencil at lower right, printed on heavy, felt-finish, cream wove paper. Published in the portfolio “Original Etchings by American Artists, published by Cassell and Company, New York, 1883.
Accession Number138570
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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