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On the Nile, 1871. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 63.8 × 110.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- On the Nile
- Artist
- Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820-1876)
- Date
- 1871
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.8 × 110.6 cm (25 × 43 1/2 in.); Framed: 80.7 × 127 × 6.4 cm (31 3/4 × 50 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Nickerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1820–1876
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.