A Mosque
Pasini here depicts the Yeni Valide Mosque at Eminonu, Istanbul, an Ottoman structure completed in the early eighteenth century. Four women of the Imperial Household enter the mosque by a gateway that Pasini appropriated from another, later, monument. It was painted two decades after Pasini arrived in Paris, in 1851. When a friend, the painter Théodore Chassériau was unable to accompany a French diplomatic mission to Persia in 1855, Pasini went instead; it was the first of his numerous visits to the Middle East.
Artwork Details
- Title: A Mosque
- Artist: Alberto Pasini (Italian, Busseto 1826–1899 Cavoretto)
- Date: 1872
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 35 x 26 1/4 in. (88.9 x 66.7 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900
- Object Number: 25.110.94
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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