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Jean MURAT (1807–1863) Moses Striking the Rock, 1836 Oil on …
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Jean MURAT (1807–1863) Moses Striking the Rock, 1836 Oil on …
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Estimate €5,000 - €7,000
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Description
Jean MURAT (1807–1863)
Moses Striking the Rock, 1836
Oil on canvas.
Unsigned.
(Original canvas (Vallé & Bourniche, Paris. Successors to Belot), tension strips, restorations and non-original stretcher).
113 x 145 cm
Framed.
Competition:
Historical Painting, Grand Prix, Académie de France, Rome, 23 April–24 September 1836: Second prize awarded unanimously.
Bibliography:
Philippe Grunchec, La Peinture à l’École des Beaux-Arts, Les Concours des prix de Rome (1797–1863), Volume II, Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1986, cited on pp. 328 and 329; preparatory study reproduced on p. 330.
The sketch for this painting, produced for the first round of the Grand Prix on 25 April 1836, is held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Senlis.
Keywords:
Judaica, Jew, Jewish, Hebrew, rabbis, Torah, Hebrew, Hebraica, Judaism, synagogue, Zionism, Passover, Pesach, Haggadah, Passover, menorah, Hanukkah, Torah, Juden, Israelite, Israel, anti-Semitism, Dreyfus, Megillah, Sephardic, ketubah
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