Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Tortoise Trainer

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OriginalThe Tortoise Trainer, a satyrical painting by Osman Hamdi Bey. The painting alludes to the slow and ineffective attempts at reforming the Ottoman Empire through the attempts of an anachronistic historical character to train tortoises.
Reason
I initially thought it indeed depicts a tortoise trainer before reading the historical context. Still, maybe such folks exist...
Articles in which this image appears
The Tortoise Trainer, Pera Museum, Osman Hamdi Bey, Turkey
FP category for this image
Paintings
Creator
Osman Hamdi Bey

Promoted File:Osman Hamdi Bey - The Tortoise Trainer - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 20:47, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]