1838
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia: Volume I - No. 38, Ruins of Karnak is a 1838 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a group of people standing near ancient stone ruins. The sky is pale and hazy, with a few clouds. In the background, you can see big, worn-down temple walls and some tall, broken columns. The people are dressed in long robes and hats, looking at the ruins or walking around. The artist added tiny details like the folds in the robes and the texture of the stones. This was made in 1838, when artists often traveled to faraway places to draw ruins. Look up Romanticism next to see how this style focused on grand, mysterious places.
Louis Haghe (17 March 1806 – 9 March 1885) was a lithographer and watercolourist from the Netherlands and then the United Kingdom.
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