* Brindesi (Giovanni, 1826-1888). Ottoman Gentleman at rest, watercolour, pencil and white chalk on pale brown wove paper, signed Brindesi to margin, sheet size 266 x 190 mm (10.4 x 7.5 ins), mounted on old backing paperQty: (1)NOTESThe Italian painter Giovanni (or Jean) Brindesi lived in Istanbul during the reign of Abdul Mecit in 1831. His work is best known through the publications issued by Lemercier in Paris entitled Musée des Anciens Costumes Turcs de Constantinople of 1855, and the Souvenirs de Constantinople, issued between 1855 and 1860.