Mehmet II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Details

Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris)
Mehmet II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
pen and red ink, brown, red and grey wash
10¼ x 9 in. (260 x 230 mm.)

Provenance

The artist's studio stamp (L. 838a).

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Lot Essay

Taken by Delacroix from the Suite des portraits des empereurs turcs depuis la fondation de la monarchie jusqu'à l'an 1815 gravés d'après les tableaux faits à Constantinople, ouvrage commencé sous les auspices du Sultan Selim III et achevé sous les ordres du Sultan Mahmoud second.... Other drawings by Delacroix derived from the same print series, including one of the head of Mehmet II, are in a sketchbook used by the artist between 1825-30 and now in the Louvre (M. Sérullaz, A. Sérullaz, L.-A. Prat, and C. Ganeval, Inventaire général des dessins. Ecole Française. Dessins d'Eugène Delacroix, II, Paris, 1984, p. 349).

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