Lot 94
  • 94

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
  • Moses Proclaiming the Ten Commandments
  • signed with the artist's monogram and dated 1827 (lower left)
  • pen and ink over pencil on paper
  • 7 1/4 by 9 1/8 in.
  • 18.4 by 23.2 cm

Provenance

Fanny Oppenheim, Frankfurt aum Main, 1900
Private collection, St. Louis

Exhibited

Frankfurt Kunstverein, Katalog der Ausstellung von Werken des Professor Moritz Oppenheim zur Feier seines 100. Geburtstages., 1900, no. 52

Literature

Georg Heuberger and Anton Merk, eds., Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Jewish Identity in 19th Century Art, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt, 1999, no. VII.40, p. 378, listed as "location unknown"

Condition

The left and upper edges are unevenly trimmed. The sheet is glued to its mount at the upper right corner; it was taped with scotch tape at the upper left corner, and the tape remains. There is staining, likely from an earlier mount, at the upper corners and along the upper left edge. Surface dirt. Light stain. Minor fading. Spots of foxing throughout.
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