Artwork
Pyramids At Sunset
Pyramids At Sunset is a watercolor work on paper by George Henry Benton Fletcher. It dates from 1913 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
About this work
Overview
Pyramids At Sunset is a watercolour painting by George Henry Benton Fletcher, capturing a serene evening scene.
Subject & Meaning
The painting depicts three pyramids in the distance, set against a soft pink and blue sky that blends into a calm body of water, evoking a sense of tranquility and distance.
Technique & Style
Fletcher employed light colours and smooth brushstrokes to achieve a dreamy, hazy effect, using sfumato-like techniques to render the pyramids and surrounding landscape indistinct.
History & Provenance
The work was exhibited at the Fine Arts Society in 1914 as part of a collection titled Water-Colours of Egypt and its Temples, and was later purchased from Abbott & Holder in April 1964.
Artist & collection
Artist
George Henry Benton Fletcher painted watercolours of ancient Egyptian and Middle Eastern sites in the early 1900s.
Pyramids at Giza
Sunset Sky
Pyramids of Geezeh. Egypt
Sunset at the Banks of the Loing
The Pyramids during the Nile Flood
Sphinx & Great Pyramid
Crusaders Castle Graia Gulph of Akabah
Tombeau de Lipsius. Pyramide. Chefren. 1880-1890
On the Nile, below Korusko
Canal Sulina (verso)
Sunset on the Nile
Suffolk Landscape