Circle of Hendrik Jan Augustyn Leys

Private Collection, Belgium

Oil on canvas, unframed. The picture is lined. Minor frame abrasion at the extreme edges. A stable web of craquelure over the picture surface. Some surface dirt, but the picture surface is in overall good condition. Under UV light, there are some minor scattered retouchings evident in the column at right and some additional scattered very minor retouches. The work is covered by a thick varnish that obscures much of the surface.
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The Belgian artist Hendrik Leys is known to have painted two other scenes of synagogues: The Women’s Balcony in the Prague Synagogue, 1855, and The Entrance to the Prague Synagogue, 1852, now in the collection of the Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels.