DURAND-BRAGER, Jean Baptiste Henri
(b. 1814, Dol-de-Bretagne, d. 1879, Paris)

Bosphorus in Istanbul

1871
Oil on cradled panel, 62 x 104 cm
Private collection

Durand-Brager decided to set up a studio in Istanbul where he would work between his travels and his other home in Paris. Istanbul influenced him with its Turkish society and the numerous daily-changing scenes around the Bosphorus.




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