Smoker, Ottoman Turkey, late 18th or early 19th century Gouache and ink on paper depicting a man wearing a high turban and a green caftan covering an orange sarouel, standing on a carpet, smoking a long chibouk pipe held in his right hand while his left hand reaches forward. Mounted on an album page with two illuminated spandrels on ebru marbled card stock, sealed in the lower margin with a tughra seal. Painting size: 13 x 7.2 cm; page size: 29.7 x 21.6 cm Slight shifts in polychromy, small stains.