MEHMET IV

LE VRAY PORTRAICT DU GRAND SEIGNEUR MAHOMET IV. DU NOM EMPREUR DE CONSTANTINOPLE ETC.

CORNELIS MEYSSENS SCULPSIT.

ADRIEN POSSIMIERS EXCUDIT A GAND

c. 1680

Engraving, 17,5 x 12 cm.

Flemish portrait of MEHMET IV (1642-1693)…Became sultan of the Ottoman Empire aged six…More interested in hunting, he gave up most of his executive power to his Grand Vizier, a situation that was never reversed…During his reign, the Ottomans suffered the catastrophic defeat against the Polish army under Joh III Sobieski (1674-1696) at the battle of Vienna in 1683…