19th-Century European Art

19th-Century European Art

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Property from the Jazairy Collection

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

The Damascus Affair

Live auction begins on:

February 5, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Bid

8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Jazairy Collection


Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

German 1800 - 1882

The Damascus Affair


signed and dated lower right: MOPPENHEIM / 1841 

oil on canvas

canvas: 24 ¾ by 18 ½ in.; 62.9 by 47 cm

framed: 28 ¼ by 23 ¼ in.; 71.8 by 59.1 cm

Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 9 November 2020, lot 570;

Where acquired by the present owner.

G. Heuberger, A. Merk, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Die Entdeckung des jüdischen Selbstbewußtseins in der Kunst, catalogue raisonné, Frankfurt 1999, no. 46 (as A Turkish Sign of Love).