# Turkish Women in the Countryside near Istanbul

- By: Jean Baptiste Vanmour (Valenciennes, 1671–1737)
- Date: c. 1720 - c. 1737
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 44 cm x width 58 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2006--03892c6340d1564f28c3036ae137c7ae)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f07f1ffe7742f154cd34d0c95fe860ee.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.