Turkish Men and Women (Costume illustrations of the Court of the Ottoman Empire) (Set in fourteen frames each with five plates): Set 13
Jean-Baptist Vanmour (Valenciennes 1671–Constantinople 1737)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1699 - 1737
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
(68½ x 10½ in) 1740 x 267 mm
Order this imageCollection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 803040.1
Summary
Oil painting on copper plates mounted vertically in sets of five, in glazed and partitioned wood frames an inscription on each plate, bottom right (probably added later). One of fourteen remaining: SET 13. The plates depicting, from the top (a) 'Fille Turque qui brode', seated in red; (b) 'Le Grand Seigneur en Turban ordinaire' standing in gold robes, with a black attendant; (c) 'Le mousti chef de la loi' standing, grey robes with a fur-lined jacket, expounding; (d) 'Femme Turque jouant du canon' seated in blue/white silks playing a stringed musical instrument; (e) 'Soulak Garde du Gd S.G.R.' standing archer in red robes and plumed helmet.
Provenance
[? collected by, and] painted for, the 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870) [but not listed by Ingamells in any of the Appendix IVs to his four-volume Catalogue of Pictures in the Wallace Collection, detailing those no longer in the Collection that are to be found in inventories of Hertford House, Bagatelle, and the rue Lafitte], according to the catalogue of Lady Sackville’s sale, 40 Sussex Square, Brighton, 25 June 1923ff., lot 443 (then 95 of them, in 19 frames) [they must, therefore have been winkled by Victoria, Lady Sackville (1862–1936) out of ‘Seery’, Sir John Murray Scott (1847–1912), or in his bequest to her of everything that he had inherited from Lady Wallace (1819–1897)]; thence, by inheritance, to her daughter, Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), Sissinghurst, and then to her younger son, Nigel Nicolson (1917–2004), and to his son, Adam Nicolson (b. 1957) by whom given to the National Trust
Makers and roles
Jean-Baptist Vanmour (Valenciennes 1671–Constantinople 1737) , artist