FUSTANELLA

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Joseph Cartwright - A Red Shawled Arnaut

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Eugène Delacroix
19th century

Study of Three Albanian Arnavuts and a Woman in Albanian Costume

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424299425 ... stume.html

TITLE: Study of Three Albanian Arnavuts and a Woman in Albanian Costume
ARTIST: Eugène Delacroix
PERIOD: 19th century
CATEGORY: Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)
MATERIALS: Brush and brown ink and watercolour.
MARKINGS: Made up at the lower left and right corners.
SIZE: 229 x 305 mm. (9 x 12 in.)
REGION: French
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DESCRIPTION: The male figures in this drawing would appear to represent Arnavuts (or Arnauts), Albanian soldiers used by the Pasha of Egypt, Muhammad ‘Ali, as the elite of his regular army. Himself of Albanian descent, Muhammad ‘Ali took power in Egypt in 1805, and used his Arnavut troops to secure his control over the country. Predominantly Muslim, Arnavuts were a warlike mountain people from the region of Epirus, in the northwestern part of the Ottoman Empire. They were described by a later 19th century visitor to Cairo: ‘Their costume is artistically disheveled, their costly weapons as glittering as they are inoffensive, their proud and disdainful poses, their slightest gestures, everything about them seems to have been studied in its effect.’

Albanians were to be found throughout the Near East and were particularly noted for their elaborate dress. In a letter to his mother, written from Epirus in 1809, the poet Lord Byron – who employed a number of Arnavuts as his personal guards - praised the Albanian costume as ‘the most magnificent in the world, consisting of long, white kilt, gold-worked cloak, crimson velvet gold laced jacket and waistcoat, silver mounted pistols and daggers’. He adds that he also bought some of these costumes for himself. A contemporary of Byron’s further noted that ‘The Albanians or Arnauts...are extremely fond of gold and silver ornaments in their dress...The wealthier Arnauts have the outer vest of velvet and gold, richly interwoven with elegant ornaments...The breeches which are white are tied below the knees with a coloured garter...’

The present sheet may be dated to the early 1820’s, when Eugène Delacroix was particularly interested in the costumes and recent history of Greece and Asia Minor. Like many artists and writers of his day, Delacroix was a fervent supporter of the Greek uprising against Turkish domination that took place between 1821 and 1832. In January 1824 he began his large painting of The Massacres at Chios, intending to exhibit it at the Salon later that year, and it may be noted in passing that the standing figure at the left of this drawing is similar in appearance to the wounded soldier at the left of the painting, today in the Louvre.

For this important canvas, as well as for a number of other, smaller works with figures in Greek or Turkish dress painted by Delacroix between 1823 and 1826, the artist was careful to accurately depict particulars of local costume. To this end he borrowed some costumes from the painter and sculptor Jules-Robert Auguste, and also copied details from books on Oriental and Near Eastern costumes in the Bibliothèque Nationale. The figures in the present sheet are, in fact, derived from just such a book; Joseph Cartwright’s Selection of the Costume of Albania and Greece, published in London in 1822. Cartwright was a British marine painter who lived for several years in the Ionian Islands, and made a large number of drawings of local costumes and scenery. On his return to England he published Views in the Ionian Islands in 1817 and, five years later, Selection of the Costume of Albania and Greece. The latter was illustrated with full-page colour prints engraved by Robert Havell after Cartwright’s original drawings, and it is from these that Delacroix took inspiration when working on the present sheet.

The seated figure holding a long pipe at the centre of the drawing is taken from plate I of Cartwright’s book, simply entitled ‘An Albanian’, while the standing man at the left appears on plate IV, above the caption ‘An Albanian of Jannina’. Similarly, the woman at the bottom of the sheet is found on plate VIII of the book, accompanied by a quotation from Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.

A further development of these studies is seen in a finished watercolour by Delacroix in a private collection in Athens, in which the two male figures at the left and centre of the present sheet reappear, placed closer together and in a landscape setting. More highly finished than the present sheet, the Athens drawing must have been derived from it, and was probably intended as an independent composition.

Eugène Delacroix







* Of Suliots, Arnauts, Albanians and Eugène Delacroix
* Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
* The Burlington Magazine
Vol. 125, No. 965 (Aug., 1983), pp. 486-491
(article consists of 6 pages)
* Published by: The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd.
* Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/881312

http://www.jstor.org/pss/881312

[Marku]

Arbër... e gjeta krejt rastesisht dhe fort mu be qefi!

Pra, Paja Jovanovic, "The music lesson" 1890

[Trojan]

Marku ... shum e bukur Piktura me larte... A mund ta gjesh me dimencione me te medhaja ?

[Mallakastrioti]

Marku ... shum e bukur Piktura me larte... A mund ta gjesh me dimencione me te medhaja ?

Ndoshta te ndihmoj une ketu per zmadhim:

[Trojan]

Jean Leon Gerome - The Egyptian Recruiting Officer

[Trojan]

Mallakastriot Faleminderit per mundimin ... Por e kisha fjalen per zmadhim origjinal dhe jo me software pikturash,fotosh..

[Marku]

Marku ... shum e bukur Piktura me larte... A mund ta gjesh me dimencione me te medhaja ?

Jo Trojan, fatkeqesisht jo. Edhe pse isha duke kerkuar diç tjeter dhe befasisht me befasoj... sepse bash dit me pare ja kisha kerkuar Arberit pikturen... Kurse, tani qe e gjetem, un provoj ende me kete titull por nuk me jap web-i asgje... Nejse, do te del herdo kurdo.

Hej meq jemi duke diskutuar per "zmadhime" eshte ajo piktura tjeter e bukur e Pajes qe quhet "Sokoli" dhe edhe ajo eshte shum e vogel. Nuk mundesh te besh diçka?!

Per sa i perket "The Egyptian Recruiting Office", ku e gjete vella? Mos nuk eshte nje montim? Me vjen keq pak per gomarin, por piktura, fustanella e shqipes eshte diçka jashtzakonisht e bukur...

[Trojan]

Arber ----- Kam bere nje gabim tek
http://www.arberiaonline.com/viewtopic. ... 603#p17603

Aty ku kam shkruar Jovanovic - Albanian Sentinel Resting

Eshte Paul Joanovitch - The Resting Sentinel

The sitter in The Resting Sentinel is ethnically of Macedonian origin, to be more specific he is an Albanian soldier,
yet in the Orientalist genre one can observe some inconsistencies in their identification.

[Trojan]

Marku ... shum e bukur Piktura me larte... A mund ta gjesh me dimencione me te medhaja ?

Jo Trojan, fatkeqesisht jo. Edhe pse isha duke kerkuar diç tjeter dhe befasisht me befasoj... sepse bash dit me pare ja kisha kerkuar Arberit pikturen... Kurse, tani qe e gjetem, un provoj ende me kete titull por nuk me jap web-i asgje... Nejse, do te del herdo kurdo.

Hej meq jemi duke diskutuar per "zmadhime" eshte ajo piktura tjeter e bukur e Pajes qe quhet "Sokoli" dhe edhe ajo eshte shum e vogel. Nuk mundesh te besh diçka?!

Per sa i perket "The Egyptian Recruiting Office", ku e gjete vella? Mos nuk eshte nje montim? Me vjen keq pak per gomarin, por piktura, fustanella e shqipes eshte diçka jashtzakonisht e bukur...

E kam Kerkuar edhe une ate pikture te quajtur Sokoli ne web por nuk e gjej dot.. (dikush qe mund ta di emrin e piktures ne origjinale, dmth ne Serbisht mund te ndihmoj)

The Egyptian Recruiting Officer , e kam gjetur ne nje nga web faqet ku ka galeri me piktura te Gerome.
Nuk eshte montim eshte origjinal nga Gerome , shpeshhere dergoheshin oficerat shqiptar ne Egjipt nga Mohamed Ali Pasha per rekrutim neper fshatra,
meqe donte te formonte ushtri te rregullt ne 1824...

[Arbëri]

Arber ----- Kam bere nje gabim tek
http://www.arberiaonline.com/viewtopic. ... 603#p17603

Aty ku kam shkruar Jovanovic - Albanian Sentinel Resting

Eshte Paul Joanovitch - The Resting Sentinel

The sitter in The Resting Sentinel is ethnically of Macedonian origin, to be more specific he is an Albanian soldier,
yet in the Orientalist genre one can observe some inconsistencies in their identification.

Eshte i njejti person Paul dhe Paja Jovanovic nuk ke bere gabim http://www.allposters.com/-st/Paul-Jova ... 13652_.htm
Ne Perendim e quanin Paul http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&biw= ... =&gs_rfai= ...sepse ai jetonte dhe punonte ne Vien te Austrise , bile ka zera ( jo-zyrtar) qe nuk ishte fare Serb , po neve edhe nuk kemi fakte pasi vetem kur jemi te sigurte atehere edhe komentojme ..
Interesi i madh i Europes ne ate kohe e detyroi te pikturonte shqiptar , sidomos ne Veri :

greater interest of Europe for the Balkans, he painted mostly scenes from the life of the Albanians,

Ketu : viewtopic.php?f=76&t=77&start=75

[Trojan]

Albanian Fest (1856).
Jean-Léon Gérôme (May 11, 1824 – January 10, 1904)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-L%C3% ... 9r%C3%B4me

Shikoje se me duket se kjo eshte Paul Joanovitch - The Sword Dance

[Marku]

Absolutisht po, eshte vizatim i Pajes "The sworde dance", stili autentik i tij eshte.

[Marku]

'Shqiptari' nga Jean Leon Jerome

Socio mirmbrema.

Meq jemi duke hulumtu per hollesira, kam nje pytje. Kjo piktur e Gerome-it, eshte origjinal keshtu, ose eshte me ngjyra. Dhe pastaj, eshte nje fragment i nje pikture, ose thjesht piktura e ka si subjekt shqiptarin?

Faleminderit

[Trojan]

Ke te drejte Arber ... Paja Jovanovic = Paul Joanovitch ose Paul Joanowitch

Se Kisha vene re kete..