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- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803 - 1860)
- The Turkish Patrol
- France
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- Date: c. 1830–1
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 114.5 x 179 cm
- Inv: P307
- Location: Arms and Armour I
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- Decamps was one of the leading artists of Middle Eastern scenes, although he only visited the region once, in 1828. Although his ambitions to be a history painter on a grand scale were never realised, many contemporary critics ranked him alongside Ingres and Delacroix among the foremost painters of his time. This painting, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1831, was his first important painting taking as its subject Middle Eastern society. It depicts nine men of a foot patrol accompanying Cadji-Bey, the chief of police, on his round of Smyrna (now Izmir), the principal seaport of Asia Minor (see Decamps, 'The Anchorage of Smyrna', P353).