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Cliffs at Deir el Bahri, Egypt, (painting). Artist:  Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter. Title:  Cliffs at Deir el Bahri, Egypt, (painting). Other Titles:  Holy Land Mountains, (painting). Dates:  1891. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  13 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. (34.9 x 62.9 cm) Description:  An unfinished sketch thought to depict the cliffs at Deir el Bahri, near Thebes, Egypt, shows an arid landscape with a rock formation on the right. Subject:  Landscape -- Egypt -- Deir el Bahri Landscape -- Desert Landscape -- Mountain Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 50.130.24 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Ormond, Francis, Mrs. (Violet), London, England until 1950. References:  Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 5, Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010, no. 920. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Mount, Charles Merrill, "John Singer Sargent: a biography," London: Cresset Press, 1957 (K058). Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 242. Illustration:  Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 5, Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010, pg. 223. Burke, Doreen Bolger, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1846 and 1864," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 242. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36121106   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36121106 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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