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Lot 147
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* Hieronymous Hess Basel 1799 - 1850

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Description

  • Hieronymous Hess
  • the interior of a synagogue in rome
  • pen and black ink and brown wash, with touches of green wash, heightened with white, over traces of pencil, within black ink framing lines

Catalogue Note

Hess trained first in Basel with Maximilian Neustück, before travelling to Italy, where he lived between 1819 and 1823.  Although primarily a genre painter, Hess is also known for his caricatures.  The scene must have been inspired by Synagogues which Hess knew in Rome; other examples of his treatment of similar subjects include The Jews of Rome, in the Kunstmuseum, Basel (see Ausstellung Hieronymus Hess 1799-1850, exhibition catalogue, Basel, Kunstmuseum, 1949, cat. nos. 43, 43a, 66, and 67) and Reading from the Torah (with Galerie Bailly, Paris, 1989).