Dāvūd Gürcü, Ottoman refugee and Girodet’s first Mamluk model

• Autores: Thadeus Dowad
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 166, Nº 1454, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Art in France), págs. 479-487
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 1804 Girodet exhibited at the Salon a portrait of a retired Mamluk soldier, 'Katchef Dahouth', who had served in Napoleon's army. He is here identified as Davud Gürcü, a former official in Ottoman Egypt of Georgian origin, whose choice of name and costume for the painting deliberately obscured his status as a refugee in France