Turkish Men and Women (Costume illustrations of the Court of the Ottoman Empire) (Set in fourteen frames each with five plates): Set 10
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
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 803040.2
Summary
Oil painting on copper, Costume illustrations of the Court of the Ottoman Empire by Jean-Baptist Vanmour (Valenciennes 1671–Constantinople 1737) Engraved by M. Le Hay (1714) and published by de Ferriol. Oil 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 remaining fourteen: SET 10 The plates depicting, (a) 'Dergoumiduader juge par le Gd. Visir' seated in fur-lined robe, with two attendants; (b) 'Iman ministre d'une mosques' standing in a green robe, holding a string of beads; (c) 'Porte Sabre' standing in a red robe with a sabre-carrying attendant in blue; (d) 'Kislar hga ou chefs des ennuques noirs' standing in silver/pink robes; (e) 'Le cadi Lesqnier ou chef des lois' standing man in green robes and white turban.
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