Turkish Men and Women (Costume illustrations of the Court of the Ottoman Empire) (Set in fourteen frames each with five plates): Set 2
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 270 mm
Place of origin
Istanbul
Order this imageCollection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 803040.4
Summary
Oil painting on copper, Costume illustrations of the Court of the Ottoman Empire by Jean-Baptist Vanmour (Valenciennes 1671–Constantinople 1737), 1699/1737. 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 fourteen: SET TWO. The plates depicting, from the top (a) 'Rasseki defenseur des Bostangis' standing in white robes, with pink cloak and red cap; (b) 'Janissaire en habit de ceremonie' standing, in ecclesiastical dress; (c) 'Barbier ambulant', standing in red robes with water flask; (d) 'Capitaine de Galere' standing man in red robe and fur lined jacket; (e) 'Bache-hgo ou 1 er page' standing man in white robes and red cloak.
Provenance
Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste Choiseul-Gouffier (1751 - 1817), at whose posthumous sale bought by Bezard; Richard Seymour-Conway, 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 silvered wood 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) {some bought or not?}]; thence, by inheritance, to her daughter, Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), Sissinghurst, and then to her younger son, Nigel Nicolson (1917–2004) [one frame of five was given away as a wedding present to Diana Crawford when she married Nicholas Baring in 1969 - 30/25 remain missing, ?nine at Christie's, New York, 26 Januray 2005, lot 70 and eight at Sotheby's London, 27 April 2007, lot 116], and to his son, Adam Nicolson (b. 1957) by whom given to the National Trust
Credit line
Sissinghurst Castle, The Nicolson Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Jean-Baptist Vanmour (Valenciennes 1671–Constantinople 1737) , artist