Karnak (Thèbes), Avenue de Sphinx - Vue Générale Prise du Point G

A wide view across a dry, sandy expanse strewn with weathered stone blocks and fragments. A cluster of palms rises at center left, with a taller palm at right and a distant ruined wall along the horizon. The pale, empty sky dominates the upper half, and the sepia salted-paper tones give the scene a quiet, ancient feel.

Look closer: A small standing stone fragment or obelisk-like ruin sits at the far left edge near the palms.

Artist

Félix Teynard

Date

1851–52, printed 1853–54

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3669 × 2931 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976