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Bidding Information
Lot #
15160
Auction End Date
7/18/2006 11:58:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Nine prints after Picart
City
Albany, NY
Publisher
Antique Ethnographic Pub. Co.
Publication Date
1881
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
9 prints, 173:207 mm., laid down on paper boards, light staining, some tears.
Detailed
Description
Bernard Picart (1673–1733), French artist and engraver. Picart settled in Amsterdam in 1710, partly to escape the restrictions to which, as a Protestant, he was subjected in Catholic France. He earned a place in the history of Jewish art by his realistic portrayal of Jewish religious rites. These constitute an invaluable record of Dutch Jewry in the early 18th century. Unlike Rembrandt and his circle, who were chiefly interested in the facial expressions of individuals, Picart sought out Jews in the synagogue and in their homes in order to acquaint himself with their ceremonies. In his picture of a Passover celebration the artist himself can be seen, hatless, participating in the meal. Picart used his sketches, the originals of which are in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, to make etchings with which he illustrated the section devoted to Jews in the first volume of an 11-volume work, Ceremonies et Cobtumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde (Amsterdam, 1723). The engravings were often reproduced in various editions, and served as the basis for a series of imitations published by F. Novelli in Venice in 1789. Picart also engraved the title pages for some Hebrew works, such as the Amsterdam Pentateuch of 1725.
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Associated Images
5 Images
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
America-South America:
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Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
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