Frederic Edwin Church, 1871 - The Parthenon - fine art print

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Church visited Greece in 1869 and spent several weeks in Athens. There, he painted numerous studies and oil sketches of the ruins of the Parthenon that later served as the basis for this work. Although he intended to paint a large canvas of the Parthenon while still in Greece, it was not until 1871 that a commission from the financier and philanthropist Morris K. Jesup permitted Church to begin this large canvas. By February of that year, he was already at work on "a big Parthenon". By May, he had apparently finished the painting and wrote of his concern for its proper lighting in Jesup's home. The picture was first exhibited in New York at Goupil's Gallery in 1872 where it was highly acclaimed. It appeared subsequently in many major exhibitions, including the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1878.

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The more than 140 year old artwork named "The Parthenon" was painted by Frederic Edwin Church. The 140 year old original of the work of art measures the size: 44 1/2 x 72 5/8 in (113 x 184,5 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the American painter as the technique for the artpiece. Today, the work of art is included in the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, United States of America. This modern art artpiece, which belongs to the public domain is being supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914. The creditline of the artwork is the following: Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914. Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with a side ratio of 3 : 2, which means that the length is 50% longer than the width. The painter, art collector, landscape painter, traveller Frederic Edwin Church was a North American artist, whose style was mainly Romanticism. The artist was born in 1826 in Hartford, Hartford county, Connecticut, United States and deceased at the age of 74 in the year 1900 in New York City, New York state, United States.

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