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“World-Seizing” Albums: Imported Paintings from ʿAcem and Hindūstān in an Eclectic Ottoman Market

Ars orientalis, 2022-01, Vol.51 (20220203), p.1 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Freer Gallery of Art 2021 ;ISSN: 2328-1286 ;ISSN: 0571-1371 ;EISSN: 2328-1286 ;DOI: 10.3998/ars.13441566.0051.005

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  • Title:
    “World-Seizing” Albums: Imported Paintings from ʿAcem and Hindūstān in an Eclectic Ottoman Market
  • Author: Collaço, Gwendolyn
  • Subjects: 18th century ; Art markets ; Asian culture
  • Is Part Of: Ars orientalis, 2022-01, Vol.51 (20220203), p.1
  • Description: During the long eighteenth century, a rising consumer class of Ottoman urbanites fed their global sensibilities with a host of goods from Istanbul’s thriving market. Among these offerings, expansions in mercantile trade and diplomacy brought a widening range of imported artworks into the commercial painting sector. These works included not only European specimens but also paintings from India, Iran, and Central Asia, preserved in commercial albums that have yet to receive attention comparable to that enjoyed by their royal counterparts. The influx of imported paintings provided artists, compilers, and owners opportunities for interpreting these works in a new historical context. Their methods of engagement ranged from the textual inscription of new identities onto foreign figures and the artistic augmentation of the compositions (overpainting), to full-scale adaptations of these imported models into local aesthetics. This article begins with a case-study collection at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France before contextualizing these works within wider trends across the contemporaneous album corpus. In all cases, eclectic tastes dominated from the micro-level of the painting to the macro-level of the album, which together strove to make the foreign familiar and the old new in a visual expression of the stylistic novelty permeating Ottoman media of the period.
  • Publisher: Freer Gallery of Art
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2328-1286
    ISSN: 0571-1371
    EISSN: 2328-1286
    DOI: 10.3998/ars.13441566.0051.005
  • Source: Free E Journals
    Freely Accessible Arts & Humanities Journals
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