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Édouard Moyse’s painting portrays the Grand Sanhedrin, the Jewish high court assembled by Napoleon in 1807 to ratify the answers of an assembly of Jewish communal leaders to twelve questions submitted…
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Édouard Moyse
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Paris, Second French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1867
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Camille Pissarro painted landscapes that, unusually for the time, included industrial elements, like this sugar-beet factory near Pissarro’s home in Pontoise. Like other impressionist paintings, this…
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1873
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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
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Paris, Second French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1867
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Jacques Brandon set his painting of a heder, a traditional Jewish elementary school for boys, in a Mediterranean or Near Eastern location or in an imagined distant past. The boys are dressed in white…
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Jacques-Émile-Édouard Brandon
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1870
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This caricature of Napoleon III (1808–1873), the last monarch of France, was made after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), when Napoleon was being held in captivity in…
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Alphonse Lévy
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1870–1871
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This is one of only four known self-portraits by Camille Pissarro. It was painted around the time that Pissarro and other rebellious artists broke from the traditional art establishment by forming…
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Camille Pissarro
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1873