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
Rights
Public Domain
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...