REY, Etienne
Etienne Rey (1789-1867) was a French painter. He was one of the first professors at the École des Beaux-Arts of Lyon, as well as director of the Vienna Museum and School of Fine Arts. An excellent teacher, he published a manual on the art of encaustic painting and was member of several societies of artists. Rey travelled to the East at an advanced age, in 1843, in the company of his co-worker painter Α. Chenavard and architect J.M. Dalgabio. They started out from Marseilles, arrived in Greece by way of Italy and Malta, and toured Greece, Asia Minor and part of Egypt during five months.
Rey's engravings, which show subjects from Athens during Otto's reign, and images from the Peloponnese, Central Greece, Syros, Istanbul, the Troad and Smyrna area, were published approximantely twenty years after his voyage, because Rey wished to lithograph his original drawings himself. He died before his works could be published. The plates are accompanied by side notes on the journey, in the style of diary entries. The coloured engravings which show the monuments rather resemble watercolours.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou
REY, Etienne - Egypt
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View of the Mosque and the Madrasa of Sultan Hasan in Cairo.
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Title page of the first volume. Composition: The Acropolis of Athens with the Pyramids of Giza.
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Map of Italy and eastern Mediterranean, upon which the route of the author is noted.
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View of the Shpinx and the Pyramid of Khafre or Chephren, Giza.
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The Obelisk of Senusret or Sesostris I in Cairo (Al-Masalla Obelisk).
REY, Etienne - Rest Images
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Fragment from the west frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis of Athens.
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View of the port of Ancona in Italy. On the right the lazaretto. On the left the Arch of Trajan.
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The Spring of Callirrhoe at Ilissus. In the background the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
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Stone bridge over Herkyna river close to the Oracle of Trophonius in Livadeia.
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The fountain of Mnemosyne near the Oracle of Trophonius in Livadeia.
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View of Thermopylae and the Malian gulf from the walls of the castle of Lamia.
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Inscription from fountain at Oropos, perhaps close to Amphiareion.
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Roman mausoleum (today part of the church of Panagia Marmariotissa) in Chalandri.
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The ancient theater at Thorikos in Lavrio. In the background Makronisos.
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View of the Erechtheion from the south. On the right Mount Lycabettus.
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Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens.
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The Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion), seen from the north-west.
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North-west view of the Acropolis of Athens. In the background the Monument of Philopappus.
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View of Panagia Faneromeni Monastery in Chiliomodi. In the background Acrocorinth.
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The northern wall of the Acropolis of Athens and the church of Metamorfosis Sotiros.
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The ruins of the Temple of Apollo in the ancient city Thymbra (today Hissarlik), in Asia Minor.
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Ruins, perhaps the Thermae of Herod Atticus in Alexandria Troas (today Eski Stambul).
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View of the putative Tomb of Patroclus in Yenişehir, Asia Minor.
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The putative Tomb of Aias in Intepe (anc. Rhoiteion), in Asia Minor.
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View of the ruins of Ephesus, seen from the ancient theater.
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Ruins of the Hellenistic/Roman theater of Izmir, at Kadifekale (anc. Pagos).
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1. Coastline of Kasos and Karpathos. 2. Coastline of Crete. 3. Horizon.
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The church Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseille, before its reconstruction in 1864.
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