Facsimile painting from the 'Green Room' in the North Palace at Amarna

Nina M. Davies's facsimile painting from the 'Green Room' in the North Palace at Amarna reproduces one of the most celebrated nature scenes in ancient Egyptian art. The original murals, from the palace of Pharaoh Akhenaten (c. 1353 BCE), depicted a lush marshland environment with extraordinary naturalism unprecedented in Egyptian art. Davies's careful tempera copy, made for the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian Expedition, preserves details of this revolutionary Amarna-period composition.

Tempera on paper, executed as a scholarly facsimile of ancient Egyptian wall painting. Davies meticulously reproduced the vibrant greens and naturalistic plant forms of the Amarna original, capturing the unique freedom of observation that distinguishes Amarna period art from traditional Egyptian conventions.