Louis Dupre (1789-1837), Original lithograph hand coloured with watercolour, Titled Le Prince de Moldavie, Michel Soutzo / Michael Soutzos - Prince of Moldavia. From his travel book Voyage a Athenes et a Constantinople, published in Paris 1825. Facsimile signature, Plate number, titled under with embossed blind stamp with Dupre's monogram. Lithographer: Thierry Freres, Paris. Unframed. Plate approx. 15 1/4" x 11 1/4"

Michael Souzos was the grandson of Drakos Soutzos, Ruler of Wallachia. His family was from a very wealthy group of Greeks living in Fanari, the main quarter of Constantinople. He help positions of major importance in the Ottoman Empire. He married Ioannis Karatzas' daughter in 1812, and was appointed Grand Interpreter to the Sublime Porte. He was made ruler of Moldavia by the Sultan until 1821. He supported Ali Pasha in Epirus against the Ottoman and in 1820 was initiated into the Filiki Eteria. He collaborated with Alexander Ypsilantis and paid large sums of money for the needs of the Greek Army. He went to Switzerland and was hosted in Geneva by the Philhellene Jean-Gabriel Eynard. Together they arranged for the collection and distribution of money in favour of the Greek War of Independence. Under Kapodistrias' rule, he was appointed as representative of Greece to France, and later under King Otto of Greece, as ambassador in Russian, Sweden, Denmark, and France. In 1839 he moved to Athens and served as a member of the council of state until 1840. He died in Athens in 1864.

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