Haute-Egypt, Salle Hypostyle à Karnak
ca. 1870
Medium
Albumen silver print
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1973
Accession Number
1973.607.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the majestic Hypostyle Hall at Karn in Upper Egypt through Adolphe Braun's captivating *Haute-Egypte, Salle Hypostyle à Karnak* (ca. 1870). This albumen silver print, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Photographs Department, immortalizes the temple complex's iconic forest of towering papyriform columns—some rising over 20 meters high—carved with intricate hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt's New Kingdom era (ca. 1550–1070 BCE). Braun, a pioneering French photographer, expertly framed the ruins to evoke their awe-inspiring scale and weathered grandeur. Created during the height of ...