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Turkish Women in the Countryside near Istanbul
Also titled Turkse vrouwen in de omgeving van Istanbul
Jean Baptiste Vanmour (Valenciennes, 1671–1737)
c. 1720 - c. 1737
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 44 cm x width 58 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The women are all looking up at an apparition of a vague, floating female figure. What story is depicted here is not known. It might be a Turkish folk tale, or perhaps what we see are the hallucinations of women smoking opium.
