September 13, 2009

Man of the Albanian coast

 
Title 
Man of the Albanian coast
Artist
Vanmour, Jean Baptiste
Dated
1700 to 1737
Material
Canvas
Acquisition Method
transfer of management
Date acquisition
1902
Inscription
Back inscription:  Arbanes / A man from the coast Arbano

A man of the Albanian coast. Soldier, standing, full length, on the right hand over his 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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