Ali Pasha (born about 1741, died 1822)

Ali Pasha (born about 1741, died 1822)

Ali Pasha (born about 1741, died 1822)
Artist:Jacob Ritter von Hartmann (German, 1795–1873)
Date:1822
Medium:Ivory
Dimensions:Oval, 4 1/8 x 3 1/4 in. (105 x 84 mm)
Classification:Miniatures
Credit Line:The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Josephine and Sarah Lazarus, in memory of their father, 1888–95

Catalogue Entry
Hartmann, a dilettante miniature painter, became a general in the Bavarian infantry. He died in Würzburg. The signature on this miniature is in the same form as that on a work by Hartmann shown at the “Miniaturen-Ausstellung,” Munich, 1912, which was signed Htn. 9/20 (Thieme-Becker, vol. 16, 1923, p. 81).
Ali Pasha, called the Lion of Yanina, was a Turkish brigand who became the despotic ruler of much of Albania, Epirus, Macedonia, Thessaly, and the Morea, with his court at Ioannina. Byron visited him in 1809 and described their meeting in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Ali Pasha was murdered on February 5, 1822.
[2016; adapted from Reynolds and Baetjer 1996]

Location : Metropolitan Museum of Art