The Great Pyramid, Giza
Adrien Dauzats
1830 or later
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 7/8 × 13 in. (42.9 × 33 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Kenneth Jay Lane, 2015
Accession Number
2015.506.1
Tags
OrientalistPyramids
About the Artist
Adrien Dauzats · 1804–1868
Adrien Dauzats (1804-1868) was a French landscape and Orientalist painter who gained recognition for his lithographic skill and faithful transcriptions of architectural monuments across Europe and the Middle East. Born in Bordeaux to a theatrical scenery painter, Dauzats initially trained as a stage designer before completing his artistic education in Paris under landscape painter Michel Julien Gu...