Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Tortoise Trainer

The Tortoise Trainer

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Original – The Tortoise Trainer, a satyrical painting by Osman Hamdi Bey. The painting alludes to the slow and ineffective attempts at reforming the Ottoman Empire through the attempts of an anachronistic historical character to train tortoises.

Reason

I initially thought it indeed depicts a tortoise trainer before reading the historical context. Still, maybe such folks exist...

Articles in which this image appears

The Tortoise Trainer, Pera Museum, Osman Hamdi Bey, Turkey

FP category for this image

Paintings

Creator

Osman Hamdi Bey

• Support as nominator – Brandmeister^talk 16:06, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support - But it needs more monkeys. :)  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:04, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 11:13, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 15:25, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support. Good quality. Has its own article, so high EV. sst✈^(discuss) 01:00, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 16:45, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Hafspajen (talk) 17:27, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 01:28, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Osman Hamdi Bey - The Tortoise Trainer - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:47, 4 December 2015 (UTC)