Attica Viewed from Mount Pentéli
Medium
Etching on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 33 × 48.1 cm (13 × 18 15/16 in.); Plate: 43.8 × 59.5 cm (17 1/4 × 23 7/16 in.); Primary support: 34.2 × 48.8 cm (13 1/2 × 19 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 49.6 × 64 cm (19 9/16 × 25 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
158216
Art Historical Context
Gaze upon *Attica Viewed from Mount Pentéli*1845), a masterful etching by French artist Théodore Caruelle dAligny. This panoramic landscape captures the ancient region of Attica in Greece, as seen from the slopes of Mount Pentéli—famed for its marble quarries supplied stone for the Parthenon other classical wonders. D'Aligny, a 19th-century landscape specialist, traveled to Greece in the 1840s, channeling Romantic fascination with antiquity into precise, evocative views that blend natural beauty with historical reverence. Rendered as an etching on delicate ivory China paper and laid down on w...