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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Gutele Wormser

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on board ; 17.25" x 15.25", 43.8 cm x 38.7 cm, + frame

  • Date

    ca. 1850

  • Notes

    Handwritten on back frame: Abraham Wormser geb. 1893 [illegible] 18__

  • Summary

    In a three-quarter portrait, the subject is as an older woman. She wears a black dress with a white lace collar and a lace bonnet, and she has a gold chain. The portrait is framed in a rectangular frame with an oval cut out. Matching portrait with 2022.59.

  • Depicted

    Wormser, Gutele

  • Subject

    Women, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Wormser family collection, AR 26007

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Gutele Wormser (née Hayum) was born June 4, 1790 in Wittelshofen, in the state of Bayern, Germany. Her father was Hayum Hajim Lemle (1758–1798) and mother was Dots Theresa Gabriel (1760–1798). Gutele married Abraham Wormser (1785-1859) in 1811, and they had seven children. Gutele died in 1866.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Portrait of Gutele Wormser, Leo Baeck Institute, 2022.60.