Frederic Edwin ChurchÉtats-Unis, 1826–1900The Parthenon
À propos du tableau
Le Parthénon est un grand tableau réalisé en 1871 par l'artiste américain Frederic Edwin Church. Il fait partie de la collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York.
Church visita la Grèce en 1869 et passa plusieurs semaines à Athènes, où il fit de nombreuses études sur les ruines du Parthénon qui servirent plus tard de base à l'œuvre. En 1871, une commande du financier et philanthrope Morris K. Jesup permit finalement à Church de commencer à travailler sur son « Grand Parthénon ».
Le tableau est exposé dans la galerie 760 du Metropolitan Museum.
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- 15.30.67
Pendant ce temps, chez Frederic Edwin Church
La vie entièrewinter 1868 – 1869
A winter in Rome
Back in southern Europe by summer, the Churches wintered in Rome among artist friends, including Sanford Robinson Gifford and Jervis McEntee. There Church learned fresco painting and collected Old Master paintings, though on the whole Europe interested him far less than it did most American artists.
April 1869
Athens and the Parthenon; home again
Leaving his family in Rome, Church spent two weeks in Athens, where the Parthenon so impressed him that he sketched and painted it energetically; this visit ended the journey. In May the Churches left Rome and, by way of Paris and England, were home by the end of June.
1870
Begins building Olana
Before the journey Church had bought 18 acres on the hilltop above his farm for its views of the Hudson and the Catskills, and in 1870 he began building a Persian-inspired mansion there. Richard Morris Hunt was consulted early on and the architect Calvert Vaux completed the project, but Church made his own architectural sketches and laid out roads, writing that he could make more and better landscapes this way than with canvas and paint in the studio.
1870
A founding trustee of the Metropolitan Museum
Church became one of the founding trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and remained one until his death.
30 avril 1870
Son born: Louis P. Church
