Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of Charles Gravier

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OriginalPortrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador, in Turkish Attire by Antoine de Favray. The ambassador has been depicted with a smoking pipe, in Turkish garb, while sitting in an Ottoman style room. The oil on canvas painting, which measures 141.5 x 113 cm, is in the collections of the Pera Museum.
Reason
Excellent portrait of the diplomat Charles Gravier and a good example of French orientalist art and turquerie. Gravier played an important role in Franco-Ottoman relations, both as ambassador and later as French Minister for Foreign Affairs. He commissioned the work from Antoine de Favray while in Constantinople.
Articles in which this image appears
Antoine de Favray, Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, Diplomacy, Franco-Ottoman alliance and Pera Museum
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator
Antoine de Favray
I agree. I forgot to list the articles in order highest encyclopedic value when I nominated the painting. Currently the articles are just listed alphabetically. Feel free to change the order. P. S. Burton (talk) 15:45, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Antoine de Favray - Portrait of Charles Gravier Count of Vergennes and French Ambassador, in Turkish Attire - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:22, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]