Melchior LorchDanish, 1583Süleyman I
May one see it?
Unknown
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Portraits of Suleiman the Magnificent, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, were extremely popular in Western Europe. He was viewed in the west with a mixture of fear and admiration. Melchior Lorck sojourned in Constantinople (today’s Istanbul) for several years and made a portrait of the sultan there on 15 February 1559, which he later used as the starting point for this engraving.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-P-1912-384
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
