Filles Turques, qui jouent au Mangala, plate 53 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 12 5/16 in. (42.8 × 31.3 cm) Plate: 14 1/16 × 9 13/16 in. (35.7 × 24.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Accession Number
2019.282.58
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Filles Turques, qui jouent au Mangala** (Turkish Girls Playing Mangala), 53 from the *Recueil de cent estamp représentant différentes nations du Levant*Collection of One Hundred Prints Representing Different of the Levant), captures a lively moment of leisure in the Ottoman Empire. Created around 1714–15 by painter Jean Baptiste Vanmour who served as court artist to the French ambassador in Istanbul and engraved by Jacques le Hay, etching and engraving depicts young Turkish women engrossed in Mangala—a traditional mancala-style board game involving strategy and sowing seeds or stones into pi...
About the Artist
Jean Baptiste Vanmour|Jacques le Hay · 1671–1737
Comment on works: Architecture; Portraits; Genre; Turkish scenes