# Central Metope of the Frieze of Phidias, Parthenon

- By: Henry Bacon (born Haverhill, MA 1839-died Cairo, Egypt 1912)
- Date: ca. 1909-1912
- Medium: watercolor
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: sight 26 x 19 in. (66.0 x 48.3 cm)
- Culture: Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Given in memory of the artist by his wife Louisa Lee Bacon
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=798)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/29fd36d3e7d8aeab62e33aeeecbcba36.jpg
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