MAKE A MEME View Large Image ...Bazouk Singing - Walters 37883.jpg An Albanian soldier called an Arnaut is seated beside his hookah water pipe playing an oud a lute-like instrument accompanied by the cawing of a pet raven perched on its cage Seated in the background are ...
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Keywords: Jean-Léon Gérôme - Bashi-Bazouk Singing - Walters 37883.jpg An Albanian soldier called an Arnaut is seated beside his hookah water pipe playing an oud a lute-like instrument accompanied by the cawing of a pet raven perched on its cage Seated in the background are three Bashi-Bazouks or members of the Ottoman Empire's irregular troops who were noted for their ferocity Gérôme visited Greece and Turkey in 1854 sailed up the Nile River in 1857 and returned to the Near East on a number of occasions Much of his work was devoted to orientalist paintings which he imbued with a sense of reality by providing a wealth of details 1868 Oil on canvas cm 46 3 66 ; Framed cm 76 8 96 5 12 1 accession number 37 883 14204 Goupil et Cie Paris James B Haggin et al Sale New York 1917 no 40 R H Lorenz as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1917 Transcription J L Gerome signed lower right The Orientalists The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987-1988 The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid; J Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles; Musee D'Orsay Paris 2010-2011 place of origin Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Orientalist paintings by Jean-Léon Gérôme French paintings in the Walters Art Museum 1860s paintings from France 1868 paintings
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