Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bashi-bazouk

Bashi-bazouk

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Original – Bashi-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

Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:40, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Lotje ツ (talk) 04:59, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support seems to have minor damage or artifacts on the painting but that may be expected due to age. Pine^(talk) 07:16, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support I spotted the image before, but at that time it had inferior quality. Brandmeister^talk 09:01, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Saffron Blaze (talk) 15:13, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Colin°^Talk 21:11, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Beautiful image, high EV. Neutrality^talk 15:42, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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