Bashi-Bazouk Singing

1868

66 cm 46.3 cm

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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...

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Goupil et Cie., Paris; James B. Haggin et al. Sale, New York, 1917, no. 40 [R. H. Lorenz as agent]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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