"Chef de Grand Sanhedrin, Premiere Grand Rabbin et President du Consistoire Central Israelite a Paris."

(SINZHEIM, DAVID).

Haguenau

Distinguished half-length engraved portrait, wearing his distinctive peaked fur hat. Laid down onto mat with ruled-border added. Small loss on extreme left margin, not affecting image. Not examined out of frame

Based on the Hebrew honorifics, it seems evident that this portrait was accomplished while Chief Rabbi was still alive. Not in Rubens, Jewish Iconography/ Joseph David Sinzheim (1745-1812) was regarded as the foremost French Talmudist of his time and was certainly the most prominent member of the Assembly of Notables convened by Napoleon in 1806