Category:Portrait of Mehmed II by Gentile Bellini

**The Sultan Mehmet II**
	painting by Gentile Bellini
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Instance of	painting;
Part of	Victoria and Albert museum prints, drawings, & paintings collection;
Main subject	Mehmed II;
Depicts	Mehmed II;
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support);
Genre	portrait;
Location	Room 63, the Edwin and Susan Davies gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, London, England
Creator	Gentile Bellini;
Owned by	National Gallery (1916–);
Location of creation	Istanbul;
Collection	Victoria and Albert Museum;
Inventory number	NG3099 (National Gallery); LOAN:NATIONAL GALLERY.425-2009 (Victoria and Albert Museum);
Inception	1480 (statement with Gregorian date earlier than 1584);
Width	52 cm;
Height	70 ±1 cm;
Authority file
	Q3937436;
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Gentile Bellini: The Sultan Mehmet II

Artist



Description	Italian painter, sculptor and medalist Venetian School
Date of birth/death	1429	before 23 February 1507 date QS:P,+1507-02-23T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1507-02-23T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death	Venice	Venice
Work location	Venice, Constantinople
Authority file	: Q290407 VIAF: 12275353 ISNI: 0000000118446682 ULAN: 500026083 LCCN: n86007313 MusicBrainz: bd1d1b73-925f-4678-bcff-37a1e9d5e136 WGA: b/bellini/gentile GND: 118655183 SELIBR: 177212 SUDOC: 02749649X BNF: 11952322h NKC: ola2002152464 BNE: XX878992 RKD: 6266 J9U: 987007279444405171 Koninklijke: 072185503 WorldCat

Title

The Sultan Mehmet II

Part of

Victoria and Albert museum prints, drawings, & paintings collection

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

It has been noticed that the portrait is like one of the figures in a painting by Marco Palmezzano, Jesus among the Doctors in the Temple (Brisighella, near Forlì and Ravenna). So the dating and authorship of the portrait by Bellini have been placed in question.

Depicted people

Mehmed II

Date

1480

Medium

Oil (19th-century repaint) on canvas, perhaps transferred from wood

Dimensions

height: 70 cm (27.5 in)

; width: 52 cm (20.4 in)

Collection

Victoria and Albert Museum

	Native name	Victoria and Albert Museum
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 29′ 27″ N, 0° 07′ 38″ W
	Established	1852
	Website	www.vam.ac.uk
	Authority file	: Q213322 VIAF: 128776887 ISNI: 0000000123230472 ULAN: 500302040 LCCN: n79066252 OSM: 29795 WorldCat

National Gallery

	Native name	National Gallery
	Parent institution	Board of Trustees of the National Gallery
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 30′ 32″ N, 0° 07′ 42″ W
	Established	1824
	Website	nationalgallery.org.uk
	Authority file	: Q180788 VIAF: 144868906 ISNI: 0000000406058908 ULAN: 500125190 LCCN: n80081622 NLA: 35311349 WorldCat

Current location

not on view Loan: Victoria & Albert museum

Accession number

LOAN:NATIONAL GALLERY.425-2009 (Victoria and Albert Museum)
NG3099 (National Gallery)

Place of creation

Istanbul

Object history

Layard Bequest, 1916

Exhibition history

Gentile Bellini and the East, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Inscriptions

An old inscription, lower right, gives the date 25 November 1480.

The lower left inscription is a more recent reconstruction; it includes the names Mehmet and Gentile Bellini.

An inscription in the lower left-hand corner, now largely obliterated, once read "Victor Orbis" ("Conqueror of the World").

Notes

Fascinated by portraiture and European culture, he sent a request for a painter to the Venetian authorities in 1479. Gentile Bellini, having recently completed a series of portraits of the doges (elected rulers) of Venice, was well qualified for the task. The painting is almost entirely repainted, especially in the figure.

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