Auction 85 · Lot 218
Synagogue Prayers, Venice.
- Estimate
- $12,000–$18,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN SCHOOL).
Place
18th-century
Description
Oil on panel.
summary
Provenance:
Tefaf, Maastricht.
Antichità Alberto di Castro, Rome.
Depicts the interior of a Venetian Synagogue in which attending prayers are a group of gentlemen in European dress, with one in Oriental attire. Three rabbinic officiants hover, two of whom are poised on the raised Reader’s platform. The scene is complete with a large golden chandelier hovering overhead.
The city of Venice hosted five synagogues, each known as ‘Scuola’ with the earliest dating back to 1528.
Two horizontal cracks reinforced on verso. 15 x 20 inches (36.5 x 53 cm).
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