French school, ca.1780 Style JEAN BAPTISTE VAN MOUR

This refined and remarkable “Turkish Scene”, realized around 1780 within the European orientalist taste, is inscribed in the wake of the compositions of Jean-Baptiste Van Mour, French painter famous for his representations of life in the Ottoman Empire. The work recreates a courtly or urban environment of Ottoman inspiration, where a multiplicity of figures are arranged in an architectural space that combines monumental elements with a scenographic air.