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Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul early in his career, when he was working with mostly historical and biblical subjects. Here a young, eroticized David plays a lyre for a darkly brooding King…
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Ernst Josephson
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Stockholm, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1878
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Maurycy Gottlieb saw his art as essential to his universalist vision, namely, as a way to improve Polish-Jewish relations. As he said, “I am a Jew and a Pole and, God willing, I want to serve both.”…
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Maurycy Gottlieb
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
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1878–1879
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In late 1897, Camille Pissarro, the noted impressionist artist, known for his many landscapes and cityscapes, came to Paris and rented a room in the Hôtel du Louvre, which gave him a good view of the…
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1898
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Though Benjamin-Eugène Fichel is better known for his historical paintings set in the eighteenth century, in this painting he documents modernity itself. Here a wealthy couple orders a meal in a…
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Benjamin-Eugène Fichel
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Paris, France
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Date Unknown, 19th century
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One of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known paintings, The Death of Tasso, depicts the death of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544–1595). Tasso was famous for his epic poem, La Gerusalemme liberate…
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Friedrich Friedländer
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Vienna, Austria
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Date Unknown, 18th century
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This pastoral painting is typical of the work of Charles Towne. His landscapes were not realistic depictions of actual places, but instead romantic views of idealized scenes. He cited seventeenth…
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Charles Towne
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Merseyside, United Kingdom
Date:
1812
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Religion is one of many paintings with Christian themes by Philipp Veit, whose mother wanted him to become a priest. He first painted it as a fresco for the north wing of the Vatican and then created…
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Philipp Veit
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1819
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Leo Lehmann (1782–1859) was the father of the popular portrait artist Rudolf Lehmann. Here he depicts his father, a painter and printmaker (and his son’s first art teacher) at work, with the tools of…
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Rudolf Lehmann
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Ottensen, German Confederation (Ottensen, Germany)
Date:
1851
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Waiting for the Verdict depicts a despondent family sitting outside a courtroom, waiting for a verdict in the trial of a loved one. Through the door can be seen a judge and white-wigged lawyers…
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Abraham Solomon
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1857
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Edouard Brandon’s painting of Amsterdam’s famous Portuguese Synagogue (1675) is set on the Ninth of Av, a fast day commemorating and mourning the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Members of the…
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Jacques-Émile-Édouard Brandon
Places:
Paris, Second French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1867