Senhora Vestida em Trajes Turcos e seu Servo (A Lady in Turkish Dress and Her Servant) - Jean-Étienne Liotard
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City
OST - 723x571 - 1750
Liotard, who traveled extensively, became infatuated
with all things Turkish during a four-year stay in Constantinople (1738–42).
There he made numerous pastel and oil studies of Turkish and British notables,
as well as street persons and acquaintances dressed in the striking patterns,
colors and textures of native Turkish costume. Here, a woman Liotard described
as “Frankish”—of European ancestry, but from the eastern Mediterranean—holds a
long chibouk (smoking pipe) in her henna-dyed fingertips. Her
feet are protected from the wet floors of this Turkish public bathhouse by
platform shoes. A young companion carries a bath bowl equipped with a comb and
lidded container for soap and lathering mitts that will be used, perhaps, at
the marble sink behind them.
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