

Bashi-Bazouk Singing
1868
An Albanian soldier, called an Arnaut, is seated beside his hookah (water pipe), playing an oud (a lute-like instrument) accompanied by the cawing of a pet raven perched on its cage. Seated in the background are three Bashi-Bazouks, or members of the Ottoman Empire's irregular troops, who were noted for their ferocity. Gérôme visited Greece and Turkey in 1854, sailed up the Nile River in 1857, and returned to the Near East on a number of occasions. Much of his work was devoted to orientalist paintings, which he imbued with a sense of reality by providing a wealth of details.
The Walters Art Museum
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1917
The Walters Art Museum
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1917
- Size:
- 18 1/4 x 26 in. (46.3 x 66 cm)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- License:
- Creative Commons License, Courtesy of The Walters Art Museum
- For more:
- http://art.thewalters.org/detail/14204/bashi-bazouk-singing/
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