Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bashi-bazouk

Bashi-bazouk

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Original – Bashi-Bazouk by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The bashi-bazouk were irregular soldiers of the Ottoman army noted for their lack of discipline. For this painting Gérôme dressed a model in his studio with textiles he had acquired.

Reason

Amazing portrait, almost photorealistic when viewed at thumb size (and of great quality when viewed at full size)

Articles in which this image appears

bashi-bazouk, Afro-Turks, irregular soldier, Black people

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others (?)

Creator

Jean-Léon Gérôme

• Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:40, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
• Support -- Lotje ツ (talk) 04:59, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
• Support seems to have minor damage or artifacts on the painting but that may be expected due to age. Pine^(talk) 07:16, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
• Support I spotted the image before, but at that time it had inferior quality. Brandmeister^talk 09:01, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
• Support Saffron Blaze (talk) 15:13, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
• Support --Colin°^Talk 21:11, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
• Support -- Beautiful image, high EV. Neutrality^talk 15:42, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Promoted File:Gérôme-Black Bashi-Bazouk-c. 1869.jpg --Julia\^talk 15:29, 19 May 2012 (UTC)