SdA 3-017 — Le palais chehel sotun au temps de l’émir Abdur Rahman
Vue générale du palais chehel sotun (quarante colonnes) ou hendaki de l’ouest dans son état original au temps de l’émir Abdur Rahman, avant sa transforma-tion par l’émir Habibullah. Le bâtiment à un étage dont le toit plat est bordé par une balustrade en bois est complété par une tour à gauche. Derrière les colonnes formant des arcades, on voit les fenêtres du palais. Est également visible l’escalier simple, en forme d’éventail.
Vue générale du palais chehel sotun (quarante colonnes) ou hendaki de l’ouest dans son état original au temps de l’émir Abdur Rahman, avant sa transforma-tion par l’émir Habibullah. Le bâtiment à un étage dont le toit plat est bordé par une balustrade en bois est complété par une tour à gauche. Derrière les colonnes formant des arcades, on voit les fenêtres du palais. Est également visible l’escalier simple, en forme d’éventail.
TCHIL - SUTOUN — KABOUL
- Souvenir d'Afghanistan, série 1 (petit format) : n’y figure pas.
- Souvenir d'Afghanistan, série 2 (grand format), SdA 2-19 : identique.
- Collection L.A. Hamilton (1894), LH 34-36 : le même bâtiment de plus près.
- The Illustrated London News, Vol. 119, 12 Oct. 1901, p. 523 : le même bâtiment, «The Residence of the Heir-Apparent, Habibullah Khan.»
- The Illustrated London News, Vol. 130/3534, 12 Jan. 1907, p. 53 : le même bâtiment dans un photomontage, «His Highness Habib Ullah Khan, Amir of Afghanistan (the Indikki palace in the background).»
- Thornton, E. + A. (1910) : Leaves from an Afghan scrapbook, en face de p. 88 : le même bâtiment.
- Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada, Madrid, 1958,Vol. 3, p. 114 : «Palacio del Emir (Cabul)».
- Gray, J.A. (1895) : At the court of the Amir, p. 363 : «The Palace of Endekki is at the top of a small hill. In the distance it has rather the appearance of a Greek temple with pillars around it. After climbing the hill one mounts a flight of stone steps to a terrace, from the centre of which rises the main body of the Palace. A few more steps, and one enters a lobby which leads into the long hall. This has a row of pillars in the centre supporting the roof, and is lit on each side by three large windows. It was furnished somewhat elaborately in the European style; resembling very much, though it was smaller than, the Salaam Khana, or great Durbar Hall in Kabul. […]» «After lunch His Highness invited us into a small room opening into the long hall at the opposite end from the lobby. This was a very pretty little room: one side of it was bowed or rounded, and had three large windows in it overlooking the valley. The room was furnished like an English drawing-room, even to the Collard and Collard piano. […]»
- Dupree, N.H. (1965) : An Historical Guide to Kabul, p. 68 : «[…] to the gates of Chilsitoon (Forty Pillars) Palace with its beautiful spacious garden. Originally built by Amir Abdur Rahman, it was given to Prince Habibullah as a private estate. An English doctor resident in Kabul during those days describes its «appearance of a Greek temple with pillars around it» which accounts for its name. The Durand Mission under Sir Mortimer Durand, charged with the settlement of the borders between Afghanistan and British India, were housed in this palace on their arrival in October 1893. One member was most impressed by his «lordly bed upholstered in gold brocade and blue satin».»
- Dupree, N.H. (1977) : Early 20th Century Afghan Adaptations of European Architecture, pp. 17-19 : «Amir Habibullah’s predilection for the colonial style was very marked and may be detected in all of the buildings designed by himself, and is particularly noticeable in his penchant for remodelling his father’s palaces.» «A prime example was Chihlsitoon, a rectangular one-storey flat-roof structure gently bowed on the western front which was gracefully surrounded by a verandah of many columns (chihlsitoon). Opposite each arch on the verandah there was a double door with a four-course petal fanlight. Chihlsitoon stood on the summit of a high hill some six kilometres south of Kabul and was visible from a far distance, looking not unlike a Greek temple.»
- Dupree, N.H. (1992) : «Cehel Sotun», in : Encyclopaedia Iranica 5, p. 115-116a + pl. 11.
- Schinasi, M. (2008) : Kabul 1773-1948, p. 113 : description du palais et des transformations apportées par Habibullah Khan ; planche 7 : l’arrière du palais, appelé Hendaki, dans sa forme initiale, «Le palais Hendaki, 1894-1896.»
Bild Nr.
SdA 3-017
Sammlung
Souvenir d’Afghanistan 1925-1927
Serie
SdA 3/1 (double face, 1927) 001 à 032 : Kabul
Format
image : 134/200 mmplanche : 148/218 mmcouverture bleue ou verte
Qualität
excellente ; noir et blanc
Ort, Datum
Kabul, avant 1910
Deskriptoren
Breitengrad / Längengrad34.467307 / 69.152314
Google Earth34°28’02'' N / 69°09’08'' E / 1830 m
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