Charles de Ferriol, “Dervish” from Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes nations du Levant, Paris: Le Hay, 1714 Recueil, an elegant costume book with 100 engravings depicting individuals from different classes of Turkish society, was the principle source of images of the Ottoman Empire for artists such as Watteau and Boucher. In 1699 Dutch artist Jean-Baptiste Van Mour (1670-1737) accompanied Charles de Ferriol (1637-1722), the French ambassador to the Porte, to the large, bustling city of Istanbul. Van Mour sketched its residents: Turks, Greeks, Jews, Persians, and Arabs. These images romanticized the East and stimulated a fashion for aristocratic Europeans to dress à la turque.