View of the pyramids. From the journey to Egypt

View of the Pyramids — one of the defining images in the long tradition of European travel painting — is treated by Ciągliński as a study in the relationship between the ancient human-made forms and the vast, indifferent desert landscape. The three pyramids at Giza, built around 2560–2490 BCE, had been painted, drawn, and photographed by Western artists since the late eighteenth century. Ciągliński's 1903 version joins that tradition but brings the sensibility of Post-Impressionism to the subject — treating the pyramids not as archaeological wonders but as forms in light.

The pyramids are simplified to their essential geometric forms — clean triangular masses against sky and desert floor. Ciągliński renders them in the warm ochre of limestone, with the sky above contrasting in intense blue. Composition is monumental and uncluttered.