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    Artist

  • Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel, 1799-1882

    • Title

  • Young Jewish woman

  • Physical Description

    1 drawing : pencil on paper ; 5.5" x 3.5" ; 14 x 9 cm

  • Place of Publication

    c. 1820.

  • Summary

    Portait depicts a young woman in her twenties, wearing a Regency era dress with a high neckline and a wide band cinched high on her waist. Her hair is parted in the middle, curls in front of her ears, and the rest pulled back in a bun.

  • Subject

    Women, Portraits; Jewish women in art

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Drawings

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Biographical/Historical Information

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim was the foremost Jewish painter of the 19th century in Germany. He was born in Hanau to German-Jewish parents in 1799 and first studied painting under Conrad Westermayr before attending the Munich Academy of Arts. He traveled to Paris to study under Jean-Baptiste Regnault, and then to Rome where he studied with Bertel Thorwaldsen, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, and Johann Friedrich Overbeck. His observations of Jewish ghetto life in Rome served as preperation for later works. In 1825, he settled in Frakfurt am Main. Unlike some of his contemporaries, he chose not convert to a Christian faith.

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Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel: Young Jewish woman, Leo Baeck Institute, 2004.37.