Lot n° 7
Estimation :
30000 - 40000
EUR
Germain Fabius BREST (1823-1900) - Lot 7
Germain Fabius BREST (1823-1900)
the Sinan Pasha Mosque in Beşiktaş
, square behind the Dolmabahçe mosque in Istanbul
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Signed a second time and located on the stretcher
30 x 60 cm
The building that is the subject of Brest’s painting is the Sinan Pasha Mosque in Beşiktaş,
which was built by Mimar Sinan between 1550 and 1553. It was named after its patron,
Sinan Pasha, the Admiral of the Ottoman Navy. It is one of the rare masonry mosques built
on the shores of the Bosphorus in the 16th century.
The mosque gained particular importance when the Ottoman dynasty left Topkapı Palace
and moved to the Dolmabahçe Palace built in the extra-muros Beşiktaş district, in the
1850s.
Brest’s painting depicts Beşiktaş, which became the new center of the city in the mid-19th
century. In this area, which was completely demolished in 1957 by Mayor Adnan
Menderes, also many units of the Sinan Pasha complex such as the outer courtyard and the
bathhouse, were thus lost.
Brest’s painting, with the description “Dolma Bahché, sur le Bosphore” (Dolmabahçe on
the Bosphorus) on the back, is a document as it portrays a qualified urban texture from a
special perspective that has not been depicted by other traveler painters and that has not
survived to the present day.
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