[The Nile in front of the Theban Hills]

Quick Overview

Artist: John Beasley Greene (American, born France, Le Havre 1832–1856 Cairo, Egypt)
Date: 1853–54
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: Mount: 18 7/16 × 24 1/8 in. (46.9 × 61.2 cm) Image: 8 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (22.3 × 30.2 cm)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.63

Tombeau de la chrétienne. Vue du côté nord. (Tomb of the Christian Woman. View of the North Side.)
John Beasley Greene
1855 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006952
Untitled [Roman sculptures, Cherchell Museum]
John Beasley Greene
1856 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008611
Medinet Habu, Mortuary Temple of Ramses III, Left Wall (Médinet-Habou, Temple funéraire de Ramsès III, paroi gauche
John Beasley Greene
1854 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008612
Untitled (Still life with a statuette of the Venus de Milo)
John Beasley Greene
1852-53 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009054

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.