# The Parthenon, in Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church painted this in 1871, aged 45. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> The Parthenon rises on the Acropolis, its broken colonnade and the marble fragments scattered around it set down with careful precision.

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## The work

- Date: 1871
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 44 1/2 x 72 5/8 in. (113 x 184.5 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15.30.67
- 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.

## Walk on

- [Frederic Edwin Church's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-frederic-edwin-church?hang=750) (8 works)
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