Ali Pasha
by MONVOISIN, Raymond Auguste Quinsac, Oil on canvas, 91 x 75 cm
Ali Pasha of Tepelena or of Yannina (1740-1822), was a Muslim Albanian ruler who served as an Ottoman pasha of the western part of Rumelia, the Ottoman Empire’s European territory. The present portrait shows him with his favourite mistress Kira Vassiliki.