The Kislar Aghassi, Chief of the Black Eunuchs of the Sultan, Jean Baptiste Vanmour (workshop of), 1700 - 1737

Title(s)

The Kislar Aghassi, Chief of the Black Eunuchs of the Sultan

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-2019

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Eunuchus of Dienaar van de vrouwen van den G. Heer’
• number: ‘11’

Description

De Kislar Aghassi, hoofd der zwarte eunuchen en intendant van de harem van de sultan. Staande, ten voeten uit, bij een deur.

Artist

• painter: Jean Baptiste Vanmour (workshop of)

Place

Istanboel

Dating

1700 - 1737

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

• canvas
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 39 cm × width 31 cm

What

• eunuch
• historical persons

When

• 1726 - 1744

Where

• Turkije

Acquisition

transferred 1902

Copyright

Public domain

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• Jean Baptiste Vanmour : peintre de la Sublime Porte, 1671-1737, Seth A. Gopin, Eveline Sint Nicolaas, p. 50, afb. 27
• Two perspectives on the tulip era : a collection of works from Rijksmuseum and Topkapi Palace Museum : Vanmour and Levnî, Gül Irepoglu, Günsel Renda, p. 16, afb. 23
• De ambassadeur, de sultan en de kunstenaar : op audiëntie in Istanbul, Eveline Sint Nicolaas
• 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.