Khalil Sherif Pasha

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In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Halil Şerif, the title is Pasha, and there is no family name.
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Khalil Sherif Pasha, transliterated variously as Halil Şerif Pasha (Albanian: Halil Sherif Pasha, 20 June 1831 – 12 January 1879), was an Ottoman-Egyptian statesman, diplomat and art collector, who lived during the Tanzimat period. His collection was described by Théophile Gautier as "the first ever to be formed by a child of Islam". He was furthermore involved in diplomatic affairs following the aftermath of the Crimean War. He also served as the Ottoman Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Name

For most of his life, Halil was known by the name Halil Bey or Khalil Bey. "Bey" was not a surname but rather a courtesy title recognized and sanctioned by the Ottoman government to designate a man as being the son of a Pasha.[citation needed] Halil used the title "Bey" as part of his name because his father Muhammad Şerif had attained the rank of Pasha. On 10 August 1871, Halil Bey was raised to the rank of Mushir (Field Marshal) by Sultan Abdul Aziz (reigned 1861–1876). The rank of "Mushir" entitled Halil to use his father's name "Şerif", as well as the honorific title "Pasha", as parts of his name.

Life

Of

plenipotentiaries negotiating the end to the Crimean War, and then as ambassador to Athens and Saint Petersburg, on which posts he began collecting art. He grew to dislike the cold of Saint Petersburg and so retired in a private capacity to Paris in the mid-1860s, renting expensive rooms from the English collector Lord Hertford
on Rue Taitbout and becoming a noted gambler, art collector and patron.

He was introduced to

Meissonier, Corot, Rousseau and Gérôme
. Works known to have been owned by Halil Şerif Pasha include:

In January 1868 he sold off his art collection just before leaving to become Ottoman ambassador to Vienna, thus getting out of Paris only two years before the

Mustafa Fazl Pasha.[3] In 1877, he returned to Paris as Ottoman ambassador for a few months, but was dismissed from his post in September of that year. Halil Şerif Pasha died in Istanbul on 12 January 1879. Some sources record his death as being due to heatstroke while seated on a horse during Abdul Hamid II
's accession parade. However, the accession parade was in August 1876.

References

  1. ^ Gustave Courbet: The Origin of the World, Musée d'Orsay, archived from the original on 19 March 2016, retrieved 20 September 2017, The first owner of The Origin of the World, who probably commissioned it, was the Turkish-Egyptian diplomat Khalil-Bey (1831-1879).
  2. ^ Ludivine Trichot (25 September 2018). "Le fabuleux destin de Constance Quéniaux, la femme représentée dans L'Origine du monde". Le Figaro. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  3. OCLC 60776816.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
    )

Sources

  • Francis Haskell, 'A Turk and His Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Paris', Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, Patronage (1982), pp. 40–47
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