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The Turkish Patrol

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803–1860)

The Wallace Collection

The Turkish Patrol

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Decamps was one of the leading artists of Orientalist scenes, although he only visited the Middle East once, in 1828. Although his ambitions to be a history painter on a grand scale were never realised, many contemporary critics ranked him with Ingres and Delacroix among the foremost painters of his time. This painting, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1831, was Decamps’s first important painting with an Oriental subject. Nine men of a foot patrol are shown accompanying Cadji-Bey, the chief of police, on his round at the port of Smyrna (now Izmir). There is an element of caricature in Decamps’s treatment of some of the figures, particularly the pompous Cadji-Bey.

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Title

The Turkish Patrol

Date

c.1830

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 114.5 x W 179 cm

Accession number

P307

Acquisition method

acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford by 1855; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

1803–1860

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