About the Artwork
The Ilissus, from the Parthenon West Pediment
1829 or 1830
Thomas Cole
1801-1848
American
Unknown
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on grayish blue wove paper
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 18 inches (37.5 × 45.7 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
39.474
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Provenance
1939-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2018, pp. 159-160, cat. 23 (ill.).
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Thomas Cole, The Ilissus, from the Parthenon West Pediment, 1829 or 1830, black chalk heightened with white chalk on grayish blue wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.474.
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