Louis Dupré, “Voyage a Athenes et a Constantinople, ou collection des portraits, de vues et costumes grecs et ottomans.”
Description
This is a colored lithograph of Michael Soutzos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Σούτζος), the Greek ruler of the Danubian Principality of Moldavia from 1819 until 1821. Soutzos, a white man with a large, black beard, is depicted wearing lavish robes in the Ottoman style, lounging on a divan in front of a scene of the countryside, and resting his feet on a leopard skin - all indications of his high status as a Phanariot in the Turkish hierarchy.
