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Saint Catherine Monastery in the Sinai (Egypt), ca. 1890

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 180 x 269.5 cm
  • Inv. 1892-D

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Adolf von Meckel was a student at the academy in Karlsruhe. In 1880-1881 he travelled to the Near East with a group of fellow students. At the start of 1881 he spent a week in the Sinai desert. In succeeding years he frequently visited the Orient. Apart from Eastern genre scenes he painted landscapes in what is now Egypt, Israel and Jordan. In his monumental landscapes he combined the rough, inhospitable desert with elements from everyday life, illustrated here by the caravan in the foreground. This painting shows a striking degree of realism founded on the depiction of details, the appearance of materials and its unusual size.

Artist

Adolf von Meckel RKD
Berlin 1856 - Berlin 1893
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Title Saint Catherine Monastery in the Sinai (Egypt)
Date ca. 1890
Period 19th century
Location Sinai TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: AMeckel
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1892-D
Acquisition credit purchase
1892
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/275/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 25H landscapes Iconclass
Keywords Iconclass 11P22 Orthodox Churches Iconclass
11P221 Greek Orthodox Church Iconclass
11P3151 abbey, monastery, convent ~ Roman Catholic church Iconclass
11P31515 abbey garden Iconclass
11P31516 abbey wall Iconclass
11P3152 monks and nuns Iconclass
11P31521 monk(s), friar(s) Iconclass
11P3154 habit, frock Iconclass
11Q712 church (exterior) Iconclass
22 natural phenomena Iconclass
22C light Iconclass
22C1 natural light Iconclass
22C11 rays of natural light Iconclass
22C8 shadow Iconclass
23T27(6) modern division of historical epochs ~ centuries (6) Iconclass
24A8 sunlight Iconclass
24A81 sunbeams Iconclass
25F24(CAMEL) hoofed animals: camel Iconclass
25G11 groups of trees Iconclass
25G3(PINE) trees: pine Iconclass
25G3(TAMARISK) trees (TAMARISK) Iconclass
25G31 shrubs Iconclass
25G31(THORN-BUSH) shrubs (THORN-BUSH) Iconclass
25H landscapes Iconclass
25H11 mountains Iconclass
25H112 rocks Iconclass
25H141 peninsula Iconclass
25H153 bush, shrubs ~ forest Iconclass
25K16 desert Iconclass
32B32 Africans Iconclass
32B32(EGYPTIANS) Africans (EGYPTIANS) Iconclass
61D(EGYPT) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (EGYPT) Iconclass
61D(MOUNT SINAI) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (MOUNT SINAI) Iconclass
61D(SINAI) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (SINAI) Iconclass
61E(SAINT-CATHERINE) names of cities and villages (SAINT-CATHERINE) Iconclass
61F(SAINT CATHERINE'S MONASTERY) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (SAINT CATHERINE'S MONASTERY) Iconclass
School / Style exotism
Orientalism AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 103)
De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 101, 104 (ill.), 221 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 235)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (p. 235 (ill.))
Lieux saints partagés (exposition Marseille, MuCEM, 29.04 - 31.08.2015) / Dionigi Albera, Manoël Pénicaud, Isabelle Marquette, Vincent Lemire, Wolfgang Kaiser, Thierry Zarcone. - Arles : Actes Sud, 2015 ; Marseille : MuCEM, 2015
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021
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