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Sultan Mahmud I
Jean Baptiste Vanmour (Valenciennes, 1671–1737)
c. 1730 - c. 1737
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 33.5 cm x width 26.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Sultan Mahmud I wears a fur-lined kaftan and a kind of turban called a kâtibî. Mahmud was less worldly than his uncle and predecessor, Ahmed III, who, after an uprising in 1730, had to step down because his extravagant life-style was no longer tolerated.
