François-Étienne Lahaye: The Hypostyle Hall Of Karnak Luxor Egypt Painting Painting On Cardboard

François-Etienne LAHAYE (1879 - 1948)
The Hypostyle Hall of Karnak Temple
Luxor Thebes Egypt
Same composition of the painting kept at the Guimet museum in Paris
Painting in gouache on cardboard
signed and dated 1913 lower right.
Label of the artist on the mounting of the frame on the back.
62.5 x 50 cm at sight
Mounting under glass

This symbolist composition in the vein of the painter's style, is part of a series of paintings painted in 1913 during his trip to Egypt, however, it was necessary to wait a few years after the war for see the whole exhibited in 1922 and for success to take shape, as evidenced by the large number of articles published on the occasion of the first exhibition to be entirely devoted to the painter, at 35 rue La Boëtie, Lahaye presents eighty-four canvases composed in Egypt, Corsica, Grenoble and Provence, The French state acquires the Egyptian triptych of La Salle hypostyle of karnak. One of the paintings of which is the oil on canvas version of our painting (see last photo) This triptych is kept and exhibited at the Guimet museum in Paris.

public collections:

• Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes,Rocher à Camaret, gouache sur papier, 1912
• Musée Guimet, Paris,La Salle hypostyle de Karnak, Thèbes, triptyque, 1922