Standing Turkish Youth

1844

Not on view

In this vigorous, vibrant study, William James Müller (a British painter of Prussian descent) captured the appearance of a young man he encountered on his travels in Lycia, in southwestern Anatolia, where the artist journeyed with the archaeologist Charles Fellows in the early 1840s. Müller applied loose, broad, wet washes to his thick, textured artist's board with some rapidity, forming the sky with fluid strokes of blue and capturing the appearance of an orange tree with a few succinct circles of bright fruit. Indeed, Müller appears to have slowed his hand only to describe the figure's distinctive shirt, a vivid patchwork of striped fabrics in ocher, purple, and red.

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Title: Standing Turkish Youth
Artist: William James Müller (British, Bristol 1812–1845 Bristol)
Date: 1844
Medium: Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions: sheet: 13 11/16 x 6 7/8 in. (34.8 x 17.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1971
Object Number: 1971.66.5
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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A woodland scene at dusk (recto); A study of trees and foliage (verso), William James Müller British, Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite, with reductive techniques, stopping out, and gum arabic on blue-gray paper — A woodland scene at dusk (recto); A study of trees and foliage (verso)
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