# The Departure

- By: Thomas Cole (American, 1801 - 1848)
- Date: 1837
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 100.3 × 161.6 cm (39 1/2 × 63 5/8 in.) ; framed: 133.4 × 194.6 × 15.9 cm (52 1/2 × 76 5/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran, 1869)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166439.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/dec22590-2c27-44e7-8a1a-e79a2e2b6e34/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)