Turkish Woman at her Embroidery Frame, Jean Baptiste Vanmour, c. 1720 - c. 1737

Title(s)

Turkish Woman at her Embroidery Frame
Turkse vrouw voor haar borduurraam

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-2042

Description

Een Turkse dame, zittend op de grond achter een borduurraam.

Artist

• painter: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Dating

c. 1720 - c. 1737

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

• canvas
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 33.5 cm × width 26.5 cm

What

• (other forms of) needlework, e.g.: crocheting, knitting, embroidering

When

• 1726 - 1744

Where

• Turkije

Acquisition

transfer 1902

Copyright

Public domain

• From Byzantion to Istanbul : 8000 years of a capital, p. 414, cat.nr. 433
• A journey into the world of the Ottomans : the art of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737), Olga Nefedova, p. 96, afb. 20a
• Two perspectives on the tulip era : a collection of works from Rijksmuseum and Topkapi Palace Museum : Vanmour and Levnî, Gül Irepoglu, Günsel Renda, p. 21, afb. 28
• De ambassadeur, de sultan en de kunstenaar : op audiëntie in Istanbul, Eveline Sint Nicolaas
• From Sultan to Swindler : Seven Portraits from Cornelis Calkoen’s Series of ‘Turkish Paintings’, Eveline Sint Nicolaas, afb. 13
• 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.