Triple alliance. The Ottoman-French-British alliance against Russia during Crimean war.
This painting of Louis Emile Pinel De Grandchamp was presented to Sultan Abdulmejid in 1855.
At the top of the frame there is the signature of Sultan Abdulmejid
The plaque of the painting
Born in 1831, in Paris or Beaune (Côtes-d'Or), died on 13 March 1894 in Paris, Louis Emile Pinel de Grandchamp is a French orientalist painter. He was a pupil of Edouard Picot and Hippolyte Dubois at the Royal School of Fine Arts in Paris. He started at the Salon at the age of 18 with two portraits. He left France in 1849. He lived fifteen years in Egypt, Tunis and Istanbul where he made a great reputation. Returning to France in 1865, he began exhibiting the following year his orientalist works.
I want to show some of his works painted during his stay in Istanbul.
Turkish beauty with parakeet
The Quran lesson
Eyub Sultan mosque
Street life in Istanbul with a merchant
Turkish woman at home
Nusretiye mosque
Address:
Military Museum. Vali Konağı Street 2 Şişli/Istanbul
