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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • [Oval Portrait of Marie Dreyfus Koch]

  • Physical Description

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

  • Date

    circa 1890

  • Notes

    Companion to 2009.014.

  • Summary

    Oval portrait of a woman. She wears a black dress, lace peaking out of the high collar. A gold and diamond brooch is fastened at the collar, which matches her dangling earrings. Her dark, curly hair is pulled up.

  • Subject

    Portraits, Women; Jewelry; Brooches

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Richard Koch Family Collection, AR 25369

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Marie Dreyfus Koch (1835-1907) was a German Jewish immigrant who had settled in New Orleans with her family in the middle of the 19th century. The family later moved to New York in 1889. Marie Dreyfus Koch was married to Nathan Koch. She is the mother of Richard Samuel Koch and grandfather of Richard F. Koch

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Citation

Unknown Artist: [Oval Portrait of Marie Dreyfus Koch], Leo Baeck Institute, 2009.015.