The Oxbow

Thomas Cole, 1836, Metropolitan Museum of Art

‘The Oxbow’ is a work by Thomas Cole (USA, 1801–1848). It is dated 1836. It is part of the collection Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 131 × 193 cm. The work belongs to the genres landscape painting and topographic landscape. The things depicted include landscape, nature, river, and tree.