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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
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1870
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Pissarro inhabited the French countryside villages of Pontoise and Eragny and was a keen observer of rural life. His dignified depictions of peasant labor and sociability, such as this lively poultry…
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1885
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Soutine was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Eastern and Central European Jews. He has been described as a “liminal” figure. He…
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Chaim Soutine
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1925–1935
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Felix Nussbaum painted this self-portrait while he and his wife were in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, about a year before they were arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Every element of the picture…
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Felix Nussbaum
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1943
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The title of this painting, La Kahena, alludes to a seventh-century military Berber queen who opposed the Arab conquest of North Africa. Legend has it that she was Jewish and also a sorceress. The…
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Jean-Michel Atlan
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Paris, France
Date:
1958
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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
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1873
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Amedeo Modigliani painted La Juive before he developed the signature style of his late work: portraits of women with elongated necks and faces. But a hint of that style can be seen here in the…
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1908
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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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The Christian parable of the prodigal son, from Luke 15:11–12, was a favorite subject of artists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. A son squanders his inheritance and is reduced to…
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Henry Mosler
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1879