Dervishes Sharing a Meal

SK-A-1999

Dervishes lived together in a tekke, which, besides a prayer hall, included living quarters, a library, a dining hall and a kitchen. The dervishes wear a sikke, their typical conical hat, and long woollen robes.

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.

painter: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

c. 1720 - c. 1737

height 33 cm x width 43 cm

Public domain

• 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.
• 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.

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108054