Turkish Barrack
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/16 × 16 1/16 in. (29 × 40.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964
Accession Number
64.605.11
Art Historical Context
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps’s *Turkish Barrack* captures the nineteenth-century European fascination with the Ottoman world through the accessible medium of lithography. Created between 1823 and 1860 and printed by the Paris firm Gihaut Frères, the work belongs to the wave of Orientalist imagery that followed Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign and the growing diplomatic and artistic exchanges between France and the Near East. Decamps, a leading figure of the Romantic generation, traveled to Turkey and North Africa, bringing back vivid impressions that he translated into both paintings and widely circu...
About the Artist
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps|Gihaut Frères|Gihaut Frères · 1803–1860
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