Fête champêtre with Turkish Courtiers under a Tent

Jean Baptiste Vanmour, c. 1720 - c. 1737

This painting gives a licentious image of the courtiers. At left two guards are smoking their pipe undisturbed, while behind them a party of people indulge in eating, drinking, music- and lovemaking.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-2011
  • Dimensionsheight 51.5 cm, width 90 cm
  • Physical characteristicsoil on canvas

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Fête champêtre with Turkish Courtiers under a Tent

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-A-2011

  • Description

    Een groep feestende Turkse hovelingen bij een tent op het land vermaakt zich met drinken en liefdesspel. Op de voorgrond twee bewakers, rechts een muzikant.


Creation

  • Creation

    painter: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

  • Dating

    c. 1720 - c. 1737

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    • height 51.5 cm
    • width 90 cm

This work is about

  • Subject

  • Place

  • Period

    1726 - 1744


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Documentation

    • Renate Meijer en Günay Uslu, ‘Op bezoek bij de sultan : in de sporen van Cornelis Calkoen’, Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant 29 (2003) nr. 3, p. 4-7.
    • Mirjam Shatanawi, 'On the In-Betweenness of the Paintings of Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737) at the Rijksmuseum' in: Susanne Leeb en Nina Samuel (red.), Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State, Independent Academic Publishing 2022, p. 123-158.

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