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拍品專文
This view of Constantinople is from the terrace of a house in Pera (modern Beyoğlu) looking south across the entrance to the Golden Horn towards the old city of Stamboul; to the left is the Bosphorus and its Asian shore. The large building in the right foreground is the French Embassy, and to the extreme right is the Galata Tower. At the water’s edge can be seen Kılıç Ali Paşa Camii, an imperial mosque built by Sinan, and Tophane, the ‘Canon House’, with its five domes, built by Selim III in 1803.
The house is situated on the Rue Yeni Tscharchi (now Yeni Çarşı Caddesi), which runs from the Grande Rue de Pera (İstiklal Caddesi), down the hill to Tophane. Preziosi’s studio in Hamalbaşı sokak was nearby, on the northern side of the Grande Rue de Pera. The carpets piled up to the right of the terrace suggest that the old man in traditional Ottoman costume might be a carpet dealer. He is about to receive a cup of coffee from a female servant, while reclining under a vine-covered çardak or pergola, and enjoying the cool, scented smoke from his narghile.
We are grateful to Briony Llewellyn and Charles Newton for their assistance in cataloguing the present lot.
The house is situated on the Rue Yeni Tscharchi (now Yeni Çarşı Caddesi), which runs from the Grande Rue de Pera (İstiklal Caddesi), down the hill to Tophane. Preziosi’s studio in Hamalbaşı sokak was nearby, on the northern side of the Grande Rue de Pera. The carpets piled up to the right of the terrace suggest that the old man in traditional Ottoman costume might be a carpet dealer. He is about to receive a cup of coffee from a female servant, while reclining under a vine-covered çardak or pergola, and enjoying the cool, scented smoke from his narghile.
We are grateful to Briony Llewellyn and Charles Newton for their assistance in cataloguing the present lot.