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Item ID | 3024 | |||
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Accession Number | 75.18 |  |
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Category | Fine and Folk Arts | |
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Item Type | Painting | |
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Title | Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn | |
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1800-1882 | |
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| · Author/Creator Role | artist | |
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Creation Place | Germany | |
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Date Created | 1856 | |
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Description | Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800-1882) portraying the meeting of scholars Moses Mendelsohn (1729-1786), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) and theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) in Berlin (1763). Mendelssohn is depicted on the left, wearing a red coat, and seated at a chess table in his library with Lavater. Lessing stands at the center behind the two. Above them hangs a brass lamp (Judenstern). A servant at right is holding holding a tray, under a door with a Hebrew blessing (Deuteronomy 28: 6). | |
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Medium | oil on canvas | |
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Signature/Mark | M. Oppenheim, 1856 | |
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| · Signature/Mark Position | lower right | |
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| · Mark Type | signature | |
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Link to this Item | http://magnesalm.org/notebook_fext.asp?site=magnes&book=3024 | |
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Link to Flickr.com | http://www.flickr.com/photos/magnesmuseum/4402841084/ | |||
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Link to Magnes.org | http://www.magnes.org/collections/museum/jewish-art/paintings/lavater-and-lessing-visit-moses-mendelssohn |
