The Parthenon at Sunset, Athens
date: label: Date
content: April 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of the Parthenon and the Acropolis at sunset in Athens, Greece. In the immediate foreground, a fluted column drum (or cylindrical segment of a fluted column) stands at lower left, with its center hole clearly visible. Another column fragment is loosely rendered at right. Loosely rendered in brown and green, the foreground terrain ascends gently toward the middle distance. The Parthenon is situated atop this rise at center, with its eastern facade facing the viewer. Standing near the southeastern corner of the structure, the viewer faces west. In the background at left, the Piraeus (or port city of Athens) is visible along the edge of the Saronic Gulf, as the rugged mountains of Salamis are included along the horizon. The Parthenon itself is backlit by the glow of the setting sun, which casts distant clouds in shades of saturated pink and lends the sky a luminous, warm gradient.
place: label: made in
content: Athens, Greece
label: place depicted
content: Athens, Greece
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-507-b
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 22.5 × 32.8 cm (8 7/8 × 12 15/16 in.)