Scènes Familiales Juives

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 528

LEVY, ALPHONSE

Scènes Familiales Juives

Frontispiece and 21 charming plates of Alsatian Jewish life and custom, each captioned in French and (pidgin!)-Yiddish. Preface by Bernard Lazare. Five pages of notes by the artist about the images at end Edges chipped. Original pictorial wrappers, detached and worn. Folio Not in Rubens

Paris: c.1900

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $450

For an interesting comparison between Levy and his contemporary Moritz Oppenheim (see lot *** ), see N.L. Kleeblatt, Illustrating Jewish Lifestyles on Opposite Banks of the Rhine: Alphonse Levy’s Alsatian Peasants and Moritz Daniel Oppenheim’s Frankfurt Burghers, in: Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 16-7 (1990-91) pp.53-63