Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bashi-bazouk

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OriginalBashi-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

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