Tophane

18 X 24

Tophane

This painting shows the Tophane park in Istanbul in the square of Tophane neighborhood in Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey where Raquy lived for ten years.

You see a group of Muslim women gathered around a bench, a mosque, some dogs, a seller of simit (Turkish bagles) and an 18th-century public water fountain built by Ottoman sultan Mahmud I in the Ottoman rococo architecture and the Kılıç Ali Pasha mosque build by Mimar Sinan in the 14th century.

Real Gold, Gouache, watercolors, acrylic and ink on 300 gram acid free coffee stained paper.