Romantic images

14 October 2024

The ultimate romantic feeling about smoking comes from the drawings and paintings of Willem de Farmas Testas. Teylers Museum shows a number of beautiful pipe smokers, drawn and painted by this Dutch painter. As a 24-year-old artist, he made a trip to Egypt in 1854, where he saw many customs unknown to him, such as smoking the water pipe and men with the extremely long Ottoman pipe, the chibouk. We now owe his beautiful drawings to that trip, valuable for getting an idea of ​​the traditional smoking culture in a North African country. On display in Teylers Haarlem until February 9, 2025.

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