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The Carpet Merchant
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Osman Hamdy Bey
A dealers eye for pattern and a painters discipline meet in The Carpet Merchant by Osman Hamdy Bey, brought to life as a hand-painted oil reproduction with the layered texture no print can match.
Description
Description
A single carpet, folded back to reveal the underside of its knotted pile, catches the eye before anything else in this composition: a passage where thread and dye seem almost tactile, the paint laid thick enough to suggest the actual weight of wool. From that one detail the eye travels outward into a room crowded with pattern, where dealers and buyers negotiate amid stacked textiles whose colours run from deep madder red to indigo and ochre.
About Carpet Merchant
The scene belongs to Ottoman commercial life, and Osman Hamdy Bey builds it with a dealers own knowledge of the goods on display. Carpets overlap and stack in ways that test the eye, their geometric borders and medallions rendered with a precision that never tips into decoration for its own sake. Figures are placed with care rather than staged for effect, their gestures suggesting real transaction rather than picturesque incident.
Trained in Paris and steeped in the academic method, Bey brought a painters discipline to material most of his contemporaries treated as costume and backdrop. Here that discipline shows in the handling of light, which falls unevenly across the piled fabrics, catching a raised edge of pile or losing itself in a fold of shadow, and in the restraint of a palette that stays warm without turning sweet. The picture sits within a body of work in which Bey used everyday Ottoman commerce and interior life as subjects worthy of the same sustained attention given to history painting.
The hand-painted reproduction
Bringing this scene into a room as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction means living with paint that behaves the way the original does, glazes built in layers, ridges of impasto where a highlight was pushed onto the carpet pile, brush marks that catch the light differently through the day. Each fine art reproduction is painted to order on artist-grade canvas, the palette matched by eye rather than by machine, so the surface carries the same tactile presence as the source work rather than the flatness of a printed image.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a print
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
Delivery up to 25 days
Worldwide shipping included. Each painting is produced to order and safely packed for international transport.
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Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.
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