Thomas Cole1842

The Voyage of Life — Youth (Ages of Life)

An allegory of youth setting out in hope down a sunlit river, called to rejoice in early days while remembering the Creator (Ecclesiastes 11). An oil on canvas from Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life series (1842).

The Voyage of Life — Youth (Ages of Life) by Thomas Cole depicting Ecclesiastes 11:9
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Depicted passages

Ecclesiastes 11:9-10Primary

About Thomas Cole

1801-1848 · American (English-born)

American Romantic landscape painter, founder of the Hudson River School. His allegorical cycles The Voyage of Life (1842) and The Course of Empire (1836) are visual sermons.

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