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The Rabbi

c. 1887

Alph Levy

Associated Names

Alph Levy

Artist, French, 1843 - 1918

The image shows an elderly man standing and reading a book. He has a long beard, glasses, white hair sticking out from under a small hat, and is wearing a robe with tefillin straps around his left arm. The background is shaded, and Hebrew text is seen at the upper right. The drawing is signed by Alphonse Lévy.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black with chine collé on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Dimensions

image (irregular): 33.66 × 22.86 cm (13 1/4 × 9 in.)
sheet: 52.07 × 40.32 cm (20 1/2 × 15 7/8 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.313

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1927; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1977, no. 16

Inscriptions

lower right on stone: Alph Levy.; lower right in graphite: Alph Levy

Wikidata ID

Q77012000

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