Lot 165
  • 165

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim 1800-1882

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
  • The widow and the pawnbroker
  • inscribed Von/ Professor/ M. Oppenheim/ Frankfurt/ Main on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 9 1/2 by 7 3/4 in.
  • 24.1 by 19.6 cm.

Provenance

Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, November 30, 2000, lot 201

Exhibited

New York, Yeshiva University, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Jewish Identity in 19th Century Art, 2001

Literature

Georg Heuberger and Anton Merk, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (exhibition catalogue), Frankfurt, 1999, p. 373, no. V. 55 (as whereabouts unknown)

Condition

Canvas not lined. The surface is in good condition and with fairly clean varnish. Under UV light: very fine touch-ups to a 2 inch scratch at center left; some inpainting to the faces of the two figures at left; further inpainting at lower right edge. The work is accompanied by a copy of a letter confirming its inclusion in the Yeshiva University exhibition.
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