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Painting of room featuring natural light, grand piano, and walls filled with pictures in gold frames.

Guide

The Salon in Jewish History

Portrait painting of man looking at viewer in seated position wearing a suit.

Guide

Folk Tales and Fiction, 1750–1880

Photograph of veiled woman facing viewer with only her eyes exposed.

Source

Muslim Woman in Veil

Lotte Errell

1934–1944

Photomontage featuring male hand grabbing the base of a lamp. The lamp base is a woman wearing a dress.

Source

Sueño No. 1: “Artículos eléctricos para el hogar”

Grete Stern

1945–1955

Painting of two female dancers in skirts seated with their knees slightly bent facing the viewer, one with head dropped and the other sitting up.

Source

Dancers Resting

Moses Soyer

1954

Abstract painting depicting shapes forming a flower shape.

Source

Jacob’s Ladder

Helen Frankenthaler

1957

Portrait photograph of a woman looking at the camera and holding up a cigarette in her left hand.

Source

Portrait of Hannah Arendt

Alfred Bernheim

Date unknown, mid-20th century

Charcoal, crayon, and pencil drawing of landscape filled with trees on other side of the foreground and hills in background.

Source

Landscape of Jerusalem

Anna Ticho

Date unknown, mid-20th century

Portrait painting of seated woman facing viewer holding cup and floral garland, wearing flowing dress.

Source

Henriette Herz as Hebe

Anna Dorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch

1778

Portrait painting of seated woman wearing gold jewelry, large hat brimmed with feather, and holding a handkerchief and small portrait of two individuals in her lap.

Source

Portrait of Cecilie Freiin von Eskeles

Friedrich von Amerling

1832

Watercolor featuring seated young woman in beaded headdress and flowing dress, and another woman in shawl leaning over her.

Source

Saada the Wife of Abraham Benchimol and Préciada, One of Their Daughters

Eugène Delacroix

1832

Woman leaning against table in room with an instrument in the background and incense burning in foreground.

Source

La juive

Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy

1835