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A painting of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza with a small band of figures on the right.
Great Pyramid and Sphinx at Gizeh
A painting of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza with a small band of figures on the right.
A painting of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza with a small band of figures on the right.
Great Pyramid and Sphinx at Gizeh, Carl Brandt, 1901, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Great Pyramid and Sphinx at Gizeh

Artist (German, 1831 - 1905)
Date1901
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 67 × 199 1/4 inches (170.2 × 506.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1905.4.8
On View
Not on view
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