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Studio: international art — 57.1913

DOI Heft:
No. 236 (November 1912)
DOI Artikel:
Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0185

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the sketches
almost im-
mediately after
their produc-
tion. The album
also contains
a pencil-draw-
ing by Chlebow-
ski on which
the Sultan has
made corrections
in red ink.

ing of rhythm and such a surety of touch, that were
it not for some few illogical details, only to be per-
ceived by very experienced eyes, one could suppose
the sketches were the work of a very practised
artist. Abdul-Aziz was never taught to draw, and
perhaps his most important artistic education was
his journey to Paris and London in the year 1867.

The album contains sixty-eight drawings by
the Sultan, done in red ink on separate pieces
of paper, which have been pasted into the album.
The drawing paper has the watermark: Joyn-
son’s improved extra, 1866. The date of their
origin is roughly 1866-1870. Joined to the
album is a letter of one of the officials of Abdul-
Aziz, who wrote that Chlebowski “avait son
atelier dans le Palais Imperial et il travaillait

Abdul - Aziz
used to come
to the studio
of his painter
and during
long artistic dis-
cussions, sitting

in “ the Turkish manner,” used to take a piece of
paper and twisting it round his left hand draw on
it with a roughly sharpened reed. The sketches
are for the most part battle-scenes, attacks on
fortresses, fast galloping legions, boats full of
people or vessels with swollen sails, sometimes a
study of some movement of a hand or of a flag.
This album is the most distinct document of the
temperament and of the individuality of Abdul-
Aziz, a man who possessed an uncommon culture,
a wise ruler whose life was greatly disturbed by
court intrigues which prevented him from carrying
out many useful projects. M. Mieczyslaw Treter
has published in the Polish magazine “ Lamus,” of
which I am editor, some notes on this album of his
drawings, with some reproductions, and it is from
these notes that the foregoing information is

sous la direction et l’inspiration du Sultan.”
subscription is :

Muzzafer, Mare-
chal, Aide-de-
camp de S.M. le
Sultan, Gouver-
neur General
d u L i b a n .

There is also
a certificate of
Prof. M. Soko-
lowski who hap-
pened to be at
Constantinople
at that very
time and saw
at Chlebowski’s

The derived.

M. Pawlikowski.

PEN SKETCH BY SULTAN ABDUL-AZIZ

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