“The Wall of Lamentations of the Jews in Jerusalem.” Captioned at base in Yiddish, German, English and French.

Scene of the annual fast day of Tisha B’Av which commemorates, by way of public mourning, the destruction of the First and Second Temples of Jerusalem. The multi-lingual captioning suggests the artist’s desire to appeal to Jewish audiences of all nationalities who equally share in the spiritual loss of the Temple in Jerusalem. Verre églomisé is a form of painting and etching on glass, done on the back of a sheet of glass in mirror-image and in opaque colors, including gold leaf (like our example) and tin foil. After the gold leaf is applied, the image is etched, followed by tinting or blackening the glass with soot. <<RARE TO FIND ART OF JEWISH CONTENT PRODUCED IN THE TECHNIQUE OF VERRE EGLOMISE.>>