Temple of Edfou
Hyppolyte Victor Valentin Sébron
European Art
An image of the hawk-headed ancient Egyptian god Horus is shown carved into the left side of the temple portal in the center of this painting. Horus was the god of day and the rising sun. His temple at modern Edfou, south the the ancient city of Luxor along the Nile River, is one of the best preserved of all ancient monuments and was a popular tourist site in the nineteenth century, when this view was painted.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1876
DIMENSIONS
28 7/8 × 48 3/4 in. (73.3 × 123.8 cm)
frame: 33 × 53 1/2 × 1 in. (83.8 × 135.9 × 2.5 cm)
SIGNATURE
Signed and dated lower right: "H Sebron/1876"
COLLECTIONS
European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
16.685
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father Charles Edwin Wilbour
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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