September 13, 2009

Albanian soldier

 
Title 
Albanian soldier
Artist
Vanmour, Jean Baptiste
Dated
ca. 1700 to 1737
Material
Canvas
Date acquisition
1902  
Inscription
Back inscription:  Arbanes / A Soldier Arbanees

An Albanian soldier. Standing, full length, for a stone wall. The right hand on the barrel of a gun. Part of a series of paintings with Turkish subjects from Turkey to the Netherlands brought by the ambassador Cornelis Calkoen and his cousin Nicholas in 1817 bequeathed to the Department of the Levant trade in Amsterdam.

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