Depicting nine men and a boy in prayer in a domestic interior in cairo. Leading the prayer and invoking god is a turbaned imam – his fellow worshippers, of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds, unified in their piety. From left to right stand a syrian in his chafiye turban; a red-bearded european in eastern dress, and seven arnauts, or bashi-bazouks, including a blonde youth, wearing their characteristic white kilts. Irregulars in the ottoman army, the arnauts were recruited primarily in the balkans and deployed across the empire, including egypt. Object Type: painting. Date: 1857. Dimensions: height: 36 cm (14.1 in); width: 54 cm (21.2 in). Medium: oil on panel. Prayer in the House of the Arnaut Chief by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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