1848
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Egypt and Nubia, Volume II: Karnak is a 1848 by Louis Haghe, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows broken stone ruins in a desert-like setting. Two tall, cracked columns stand in the middle, with one leaning slightly. Scattered rocks and rubble fill the foreground, and a faint path leads between the ruins. The colors are mostly muted grays and tans, with a pale sky in the background. The artist focused on ruins, likely from an ancient temple. The scene feels quiet and abandoned, with no people in sight. Look up Romanticism to see how artists used ruins to tell stories about history.
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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