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The Parthenon

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The Parthenon

Frederic Edwin Church

1871

Medium

Oil on canvas

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Dimensions

44 1/2 x 72 5/8 in. (113 x 184.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914

Department

The American Wing

Culture

American

Rights

Public Domain

About Frederic Edwin Church

1826–1900 • United States

Popular painter preoccupied with the most spectacular aspects of nature. A central figure of teh Hudson River School, he painted, often on a large scale, the natural scenery of the U.S. as well as that of other countries. Olana, his home on the Hudson River, is now a museum. American landscape painter, Hudson River School. Comment on works: Landscapes

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