Cotopaxi

Frederic Edwin Church, 1862, Detroit Institute of Arts

‘Cotopaxi’ is a work by Frederic Edwin Church (USA, 1826–1900). It is dated 1862. It is part of the collection Detroit Institute of Arts. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

It was commissioned by James Lenox. It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 122 × 216 cm. The work belongs to the genre landscape painting. The things depicted include Cotopaxi volcano.