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Drawing, Broken Column of the Parthenon, Athens
This is a Drawing. It was made by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1869 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil, graphite on paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
After spending time together in Rome late in 1868, when Frederic Church introduced the 18-year-old de Forest to antiques shopping, Church and de Forest met again in Athens the following April. While Church prepared a visual record of the Parthenon and its setting, de Forest painted beside him, sketching the same scenes in order to learn painting through observation and comparison.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Frederic Church and Lockwood de Forest Painting on the Acropolis, Athens.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
- Painting, Broken Column, Parthenon
- brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard.
- Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
- 2018-36-1
- Drawing, The Parthenon from the Southeast
- brush and oil paint, graphite traces on paperboard.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-507-b
- Drawing, Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus
- brush and oil paint on thin paperboard, mounted on very thick paperboard.
- Gifted by a Private New Hampshire Collector, courtesy of Sullivan Goss - An....
- 2013-59-1
Our curators have highlighted 4 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Drawing, Broken Columns, View from the Parthenon
- brush and oil paint, graphite on thin paperboard.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-573-c
- Drawing, Base of a Capital, Dionysius Theatre, Athens, April 1869
- brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-580
- Drawing, Bashan Fantasy
- brush and oil on heavy wove paper.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-527
Its dimensions are
27.9 x 38.7 cm (10 15/16 x 15 3/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in brush and oil paint, on a stone: Parthenon / 69
Cite this object as
Drawing, Broken Column of the Parthenon, Athens; Made by Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil, graphite on paperboard; 27.9 x 38.7 cm (10 15/16 x 15 3/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-574-a
Lockwood de Forest | Passion for the Exotic
Join Cooper Hewitt curators Sarah Coffin and Gail Davidson, and Lockwood de Forest scholar Roberta Mayer for three presentations celebrating the Carnegie Mansion’s newly restored Teak Room....
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Passion for the Exotic: Lockwood de Forest, Frederic Church.
