FRENCH SCHOOL around 1830, in the taste of Jacques-André AVE - Lot 75

FRENCH SCHOOL around 1830, in the taste of Jacques-André AVED Portrait of Mehmet Saïd Pacha, Ottoman ambassador Canvas 75 x 63 cm Restorations Reprint of the engraving by Etienne Jehandier Desrochers after the full-length portrait by Jacques André Aved kept at the Château de Versailles Museum (see A. Boppe, Peintres du Bosphore au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 149, reproduced). Mehmet Said Pasha was the son of the diplomat Yirmisekiz Mehmed Efendi, whom he accompanied as secretary on his embassy to France in 1720-1721. He was himself sent as ambassador to Sweden and Poland in 1733. He then exercised the functions of beylerbey of Roumelie, then was sent to Paris in 1742, before becoming grand vizier in 1755 and 56.