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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • [Oval Portrait of Nathan Koch]

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 73.6 x 59 cm. ; 29" x 23"., + frame (106.6 x 86.3 x 10.2 cm.)

  • Date

    circa 1875

  • Notes

    Companion to 2009.015.

  • Summary

    Oval portrait of a man with dark hair, a long mustache and a goatee. Subject is wearing a black suit and a bow tie. Background is dark brown.

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits; Mustaches

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Richard Koch Family Collection, AR 25369

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Nathan Koch (1834-1905) was a German Jewish immigrant who had settled in New Orleans in the middle of the 19th century. He co-owned a jewelry business with his brother-in-law Leon Dreyfus in New Orleans. They moved the business to New York City in 1889, before it folded in 1897. Nathan Koch was married to Marie Dreyfus Koch. He is the father of Richard Samuel Koch and the grandfather of Richard F. Koch.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: [Oval Portrait of Nathan Koch], Leo Baeck Institute, 2009.014.