MÜTEFERRİKA SÜLEYMAN AĞA

SOLIMAN MUSTA-FERAGA

ENVOYE EN FRANCE VERS LE ROY TRES CHRESTIEN EN L’ANNEE 1669, DE LA PART DE MEHEMET IVe, DU NOM EMPEREUR DES TURCS…

c. 1670

Engraving, Plate 23 x 16, 5 cm.

A hald-length portrait in an oval of Müteferrika Süleyman Ağa…Embassador to the French Court from the Ottoman Empire…

During his visit to Versailles, he wore only a simple wool coat and refused to bow to Louis XIV so was sent back to Paris where he set up a fine house and entertained a fashionable ladies of Paris to coffee ceremonies starting a fashion for drinking coffee and inspiring an interest in Turquerie…