Circumcision for a Sephardic family in Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe

1665–8

The wealthy Sephardic family of Curiel d’Acosta is believed to have commissioned the artist Romeyn de Hooghe to make this large pen-and-ink drawing to commemorate the circumcision, in Amsterdam, of a son of the family.

Credits

Romeyn de Hooghe, Besnijdenis–scène, 1665–1668. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

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