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The Turkish Patrol

ca. 1855–56
Not on view

The present picture depicts Turkish military patrols making their rounds at Smyrna—now Izmir—which Decamps visited in 1828. It is a late variant of his first major Orientalist subject, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1831 (now in the Wallace Collection, London). Decamps belonged to the first generation of French painters to popularize scenes of everyday life set in the Middle East.


This painting belonged to The Metropolitan Museum's first president, John Taylor Johnston, until 1876, when it was purchased by Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, the Museum's first woman benefactor.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Turkish Patrol
  • Artist: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, Paris 1803–1860 Fontainebleau)
  • Date: ca. 1855–56
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 29 1/4 x 36 3/8 in. (74.3 x 92.4 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887
  • Object Number: 87.15.93
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Défilé: Combat de Grecs et de Turcs (Dervenakia?)
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
1830s
Ceramic Horn, Glazed pottery, French
Ceramic Horn
French
late 18th or early 19th century
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard French, Oil on canvas
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
1785
The Turkish Patrol, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps French, Oil on canvas
On loan to The Met
The Turkish Patrol
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
ca. 1830–31
Osage Warrior, Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin French, Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper, American
Osage Warrior
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1805–7

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