Galerie Christian Collin

(Lille 1782 - 1857)

Thèbes. KARNAK
Vue générale des propylées et des ruines du palais prise du nord-est

Plate from the Description de l'Égypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française.

After François-Charles CECILE (1766-1840)

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between 1809 and 1829

Impression on wove paper, with the watermark "Egypte ancienne et moderne"

The military campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt was coupled with a scientific expedition during which scholars conducted scientific, geographical, ethnological, economic surveys on the territory, giving birth to French Egyptology. The Description of Egypt is the meeting of the results of these surveys, accompanied by illustrations in which hundreds of artists and technicians participated. The writings and the drawings executed during the four years of campaign were united in several volumes. This plate is the 43rd of the third volume of the Antiquities. 

Sheet : 650 x 950 mm. 

Plate : 540 x 830 mm.

Condition : with margins, scattered foxing, handling creases.