A Turkish Woman

A Turkish Woman

SK-A-2041

This poised lady may have been the mistress of Ambassador Calkoen. Her clothing is very elegant and stylish; the low neckline was fashionable during the Tulip Era.

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.

painter: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

c. 1720 - 1737

olieverf op doek

height 47 cm x width 35.5 cm

Public domain

• 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.
• 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.

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