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- Horace Vernet (1789 - 1863)
- A Bashi-Bazouk
- France
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- Date: 1860
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 55.5 x 46.7 cm
- Inv: P593
- Location: Arms and Armour I
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- The Bashi-Bazouks were irregular Turkish mounted troops notorious for their ferocity and ill-discipline. Vernet encountered them when he visited the Crimea (1854-5) at the time of the Crimean War. Their fondness for looting is suggested in this painting by the broken Iznik plate in the right foreground, the open book by a fire on which a coffee pot simmers and the gold coins on a green cloth.