Italian School 17th century - Portrait of Muleasses the Turk - image-1

Lot 64 Dα

Italian School 17th century - Portrait of Muleasses the Turk

Auction 1114 - overview Cologne
19.09.2018, 14:30 - Paintings 15th-19th C.
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 5.208 € (incl. premium)

Italian School 17th century

Portrait of Muleasses the Turk

Oil on canvas (relined). 77 x 62.5 cm.

Inscribed to the upper left and right "MVLEASES TVNETIS REX". This fanciful portrait is presumably intended to depict the main character of the play "An Excellent Tragedy of Muleasses the Turke, and Borgias Governour of Florence" by the English writer John Mason, which was published in 1610.

Provenance

From a Rhenish collection.