The Top of Mount Sinai with the Chapel of Elijah
after 1844
- Medium
- oil on linen
- Dimensions
- 72.4 × 49.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-134249
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg painted several pictures of Mount Sinai and was fascinated by its religious significance as the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments. This painting shows the artist himself, seated on the summit next to the Chapel of Elijah. Through his studies of the area, Kellogg found evidence of a valley called Es-Seba’îyeh, where Moses and the Israelites may have camped. Ba…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Registry history
- after 1844 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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