The Colossal Pair, Thebes
- Date
- 1856
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- depicts
- Qina governorate, Egypt, Africa
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 205
- Dimensions
- 25 x 72 1/4 in. (63.5 x 183.5 cm)
framed: 37 3/8 x 84 1/4 in. (94.9 x 214 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, Count Cecil Charles Pecci-Blunt, and Mrs. Eugene A. Perry in memory of her mother, Mrs. Claude Kilpatrick, by exchange
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 67:1989
NOTES
Frank Dillon captures the grand statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III and his wife, which still stand on the plain of Thebes (today known as Luxor) in Egypt. A sense of desolate solitude is heightened by the inclusion of a camel’s skeleton in the foreground. Dillon produced this painting shortly after his first visit to Egypt in 1854. The frame is original to the picture and is decorated with orbs and eagles’ wings at the center and corners.
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