19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
Property from the Jazairy Collection
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
The Damascus Affair
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 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.; 63 by 47 cm
framed: 28 ¼ by 23 ¼ in.; 71.5 by 59 cm
We are grateful to Erik Riedel, Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, for confirming the authenticity and contributing to the cataloguing of this work.
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).