Les cariatides du Ramesseum 134
Medium
albumen print
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Leslie and Donald O’Bell
Accession Number
2023.131
Tags
gender unknown
About this artwork
This photograph of the ruins of the memorial temple of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great was produced by Abdullah Frères, a studio run by three brothers. Based in Istanbul, it was the most celebrated photographic studio in the Ottoman Empire. This depiction of the sculptures of Osiris and the pharaoh echoes and complements views of these sculptures by British photographer Francis Frith (1992.236) and French photographers Henri Béchard (2006.118) and Adolphe Braun (1992.244).