Mavi Boncuk | List of Osman Hamdi bey's works as compiled by Haşim Nur Gürel (b. 12 May 1948 istanbul- ) painter and a curator at Istanbul Modern.
Bust of Naile Hanım (wife of Osman Hamdi Bey)
by Yervant Osgan | plaster | 56 x 47 x 38 cm.
In 1857, at the age of 15, Osman Hamdi Bey was sent to Paris to study [1] and until 1869 for 12 years he stayed in Paris. At the age of 22 in Paris he married a girl named Marie and the marriage lasted for 10 years (from this marriage he had two girls namely Fatma and Hayriye). In 1873 while he was in Vienna as International Exhibition Supervisor, he met a 17 years old girl who was also French and whose name was also Marie. Osman Hamdi named her Naile and married her (from this wife he had four children Melek, Leyla, Edhem and Nazli were born).
[1] Studios of Gustave Boulanger(French painter, 1824-1888) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (May 11, 1824 – January 10, 1904)
[2] Weltausstellung 1873 Wien | Vienna, in the then Austria-Hungary | 1 May – 2 November 1873
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