Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Les cariatides du Ramesseum 134
Abdullah Frères (Turkish, 1858–1899)
1860–80s
- Medium
- albumen print
- Classification
- Photograph
- Culture
- Turkey
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Leslie and Donald O’Bell
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This photograph of the ruins of the memorial temple of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great was produced by Abdullah Frères, a studio run by three brothers. Based in Istanbul, it was the most celebrated photographic studio in the Ottoman Empire. This depiction of the sculptures of Osiris and the pharaoh echoes and complements views of these sculptures by British photographer Francis Frith (1992.236) and French photographers Henri Béchard (2006.118) and Adolphe Braun (1992.244).
