# The Aegean Sea, in Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church painted this in about 1877, aged about 48. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1877
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 54 in. × 84 1/4 in. (137.2 × 214 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 02.23
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Frederic Edwin Church](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/frederic-edwin-church), American, 1826–1900

Church studied with Thomas Cole in the Catskills and became the most celebrated American landscape painter of the mid-nineteenth century.

8 works in the collection.

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- [Frederic Edwin Church's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-frederic-edwin-church?hang=750) (8 works)
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- [19th-century United States](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-united-states?hang=750) (198 works)

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