Category:Bashi-Bazouk (Jean-Léon Gérôme - Metropolitan Museum of Art)

**Black Bashi-Bazouk**
	1869 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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Instance of	painting;
Depicts	bashi-bazouk, man, rifle, headgear, military uniform and profile
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	portrait;
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, New York
Creator	Jean-Léon Gérôme;
Collection	Metropolitan Museum of Art (2008.547.1, collection highlight, 2008–);
Inventory number	2008.547.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art);
Inception	1869;
Width	66 cm;
Height	80.6 cm;
Authority file
	Q19861716; The Met object ID: 440723
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Bashi-Bazouk (Jean-Léon Gérôme - Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Jean-Léon Gérôme: Black Bashi-Bazouk

Artist



Description	French painter, drawer and sculptor
Date of birth/death	11 May 1824	10 January 1904
Location of birth/death	Vesoul	9th arrondissement of Paris
Work location	Paris; Algeria; Greece; Florence; Rome; Constantinople
Authority file	: Q212499 VIAF: 22153153 ISNI: 000000012123607X ULAN: 500115563 LCCN: n50016499 NLA: 35120372 WGA: g/gerome Open Library: OL4645907A DBNL: gero006 GND: 119324695 SUDOC: 027423093 BNF: 12014496k BIBSYS: 11017714 NKC: jo2002102715 Léonore: [ LH//1124/65] BNE: XX855443 CiNii: DA02931108 NLP: a0000003112993 RKD: 31107 J9U: 987007499158305171 Koninklijke: 069601380 WorldCat

Title

Black Bashi-Bazouk

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Date

1869

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 80.6 cm (31.7 in)

; width: 66 cm (25.9 in)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat

Current location

Gallery 804

Accession number

2008.547.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Object history

Provenance

- the artist (sold in March 1869 for Fr 4,000 to Goupil);
- [Goupil & Cie, Paris, 1869; stock no. 4028, as "Un Bachibouzouk. Étude grandeur nature";
- sold in March for Fr 7,500 (£500) to Wallis];
- [Henry Wallis of The French Gallery, London, 1869–73;
- sold on July 21, 1873 for £550 to Avery];
- Samuel Putnam Avery, New York (from 1873);
- Henry T. Cox, Brooklyn (by 1884–d. 1899);
- his estate (1899–1902;
- his estate sale, American Art Galleries, New York, January 17, 1902, no. 72, for $1,600 to Opper);
- J. Opper (from 1902); sale, Sotheby's, London, June 23, 1981, no. 29, to Koch;
- William I. Koch, Boston (1981–94; sold to Acquavella); - [Acquavella Galleries, New York, 1994; sold to Wrightsman];
- Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York (1994–2008)

Exhibition history

Fictions of Emancipation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10 March 2022 - 5 March 2023

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008

References

Media in category "Bashi-Bazouk (Jean-Léon Gérôme - Metropolitan Museum of Art)"

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Bashi-Bazouk MET DP243839.jpg 3,151 × 3,863; 1.79 MB
Gérôme-Black Bashi-Bazouk-c. 1869.jpg 3,147 × 3,896; 3.21 MB
Gérôme-Black Bashi-Bazouk-c. 1869 (cropped).jpg 1,855 × 2,560; 1.37 MB