Famille Juive a Orsova, Hongrie.

(HUNGARY).

20th-century

Watercolor. Signed ‘J. Beicry(?)’ lower right.

A romantic depiction of a Hungarian Jewish family in historical folk costume. Orsova (German: Orschowa, Hungarian: Orsova) is a port city on the Danube river in southwestern Romania’s Mehedinti County. Orsova became part of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1687 at the start of the Ottoman-Habsburg War, but Ottoman forces recaptured it in 1690. The Treaty of Passarowitz gave the city back to the Kingdom of Hungary in 1718. The Treaty of Belgrade gave the city back to the Ottoman Empire in 1739. Finally, The Treaty of Sistova gave the city back to the Kingdom of Hungary in 1791. The city remained in Hungary until the end of World War I, when it became part of Romania. It was included in the Mehedinți county during the administrative reform of 1968.