Pyramides et le Sphinx

A sepia albumen photograph of the Great Sphinx at Giza, its weathered face facing the viewer, with a large pyramid rising at right and a smaller one at left. A lone figure in dark clothing stands near the Sphinx's paws in the wide, pale desert, under an empty sky.

Look closer: A small figure in dark clothing stands beside a companion near the Sphinx's front paws.

Artist

Félix Bonfils

Date

1860s–70s, printed ca. 1870

Medium

Albumen silver print

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3833 × 2871 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Daniel Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1976