Sheikh Abdallah-Al-Sharkawi, president of the Cairo Diwan (1740-1812)

This work is one of a collection of six executed during the Egyptian expedition.

Previously the collection of the Empress Josephine and the Empress Eugénie.

Copies held at the Musée de Versailles and the German Embassy in Paris (Hôtel de Beauharnais)

See the articles by Charles Otto Zieseniss, “Un orientaliste bien oublié : Michel Rigo” and by Ibrahim AMIN GHALI, “L'expédition d'Egypte vue par les auteurs égyptiens” in the Revue du Souvenir napoléonien, n°291.