An Embassy Building in Pera

workshop of Jean Baptiste Vanmour, c. 1720 - c. 1744

This painting gives a good impression of the embassies in the diplomatic district of Pera. They consisted of a stone-built ground floor, intended for servants, and a wooden upper storey where the presentable rooms were located.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-1997
  • Dimensionsheight 66.5 cm x width 82 cm
  • Physical characteristicsoil on canvas

Identification

  • Title(s)

    An Embassy Building in Pera

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-A-1997

  • Description

    Gezicht op de Nederlandse ambassade te Pera bij Constantinopel, op de voorgrond een tuin met bomen en perken.


Creation

  • Creation

    painter: workshop of Jean Baptiste Vanmour

  • Dating

    c. 1720 - c. 1744

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    height 66.5 cm x width 82 cm


This work is about

  • Subject

  • Place

  • Period

    1726 - 1744


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Acquisition and rights


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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