01 Orientalist Painting, Emmanuel de Dieundonné's Turkish Beauty with a Narguilé, with footnotes, #121

Emmanuel de Dieundonné (Swiss, 1845-1889)

A Turkish Beauty with a Narguilé, c. 1887

Oil on panel

27 x 41¾ in. (68.6 x106 cm.)

Private collection

A hookah; shisha, Narguilé, or waterpipe is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporizing and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco, or sometimes cannabis, hashish, and opium. The smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation. More on the Narguilé

As a young artist, Emmanuel de Dieudonné devoted himself to academic art, painting in the style of Alexandre Cabanel, under whom he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His later travels to the Middle East, notably to Turkey, inspired a renewed interest in Orientalist subjects, including portraits. Among the portraits he painted was that of the Turkish Orientalist painter Osman Hamdy Bey.

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