In this artwork, how is the Description discussed?
The painting depicts a woman wearing a bright yellow decollete dress and sitting on a Qur'an lectern. Behind the woman is a tiled mihrab (a niche indicating the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca). On the floor at her feet are several large religious books strewn around. There is an incense burner in the painting's foreground. The identity of the female figure is disputed: it has been variously identified as the painter's wife or his daughter Leyla.
Mustafa Cezar, Osman's biographer, has also hypothesised that the model was the daughter of an Armenian housemaid.
Mecca Qur'an lectern decollete Kaaba Armenian Qur'an mihrab