Lot 226: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim 1800-1882 , The blessing of the Rabbi oil on paper laid down on panel

signed MOppenheim (first initials in ligature) bottom center oil on paper laid down on panel

measurements 13 3/8 by 9 3/4 in. alternate measurements 34 by 24.8 cm.

Ruth Dröse, Der Zyklus "Bilder aus dem altjüdischen Familienleben" und sein Maler Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Hanau, 1996
G. Heuberger and A. Merk, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Jewish Identity in 19th Century Art, Frankfurt, 1999, no. VI. 8, p. 282, illustrated

Collection Lüderitz, Berlin, 1845
Dr. Albert Sondheimer
By descent to the present owner

Executed circa 1843.
A preliminary sketch of this work from 1842 can be found in a sketchbook in the collection of the Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Düsseldorf. Oppenheim painted two more versions of this subject: the first, a grisaille from 1866, now in the collection of the Jewish Museum, New York, and a later one in 1871, currently in the collection of Ernest and Erika Michael, Seattle.