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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Pendant with two portraits

  • Physical Description

    Photograph and Painting : double sided pendant frame with images encased in glass; photograph and tempera (?) painting ; 2.625" x 2" (7 cm x 6 cm)

  • Summary

    Recto: portrait of Joachim Edler von Popper in a dark jacket against a gery background, encased in glass. Verso: photo of a woman with curls piled on her head and lockets at her throat, encased in glass. Silver frame with velvet loop attached at top.

  • Depicted

    Popper, Joachim, Edler von, 1720?-1795

  • Genre

    Portraits; Photographs

  • Medium

    Paintings; Clothing and dress; Accessories; Jewelry; Necklaces

  • Part Of

    Schafranik-Popper-Gruenfeld families; Prague/Vienna 1729-1939, AR 5924

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Biographical/Historical Information

The son of Primator Wolf Popper, Joachim Hayim Popper (also Joachim Edler von Popper, 1730-1795) earned a fortune in commerce and established strong political connections with Bohemian nobility as well as the Habsburg government. Popper was a supplier to the Austrian army during the Seven Years' War and by the 1780's he had amassed enough wealth to establish a currency exchange in Vienna. He also consolidated his family's position in the tobacco trade by becoming a partner in the first pan-Austrian Jewish tobacco firm. From 1772-1792 Popper held the position of community head and was ennobled by the emperor in 1790.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Pendant with two portraits, Leo Baeck Institute, 2012.020.