EDOUARD MOYSE (1827-1908) SEDER OR A JEWISH PASSOVER... Lot 41

EDOUARD MOYSE (1827-1908) SEDER OR A JEWISH PASSOVER IN THE MIDDLE AGES, CA. 1885-1886 Oil on cardboard Signed and indistinctly dedicated lower right Oil on cardboard; signed and indistinctly dedicated lower right 16,5 x 29 cm - 6 1/2 x 11 3/8 in. PROVENANCE Private collection, France. RELATED WORK Édouard Moyse (1827-1908), Seder, oil on panel, 21.3 x 46.5 CM, Paris, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme de Paris (inv. 2002.01.0654, formerly inv. IOB0269). This small-format study is very characteristic of the style of Édouard Moyse, one of the first two French Jewish artists, along with Édouard Brandon (1831-1897), to have taken an interest in specifically Jewish themes, which earned him the nickname "painter of the rabbis. As is often the case with Moyse, it is difficult to locate the scene in time and space, but the orientalist-style costumes of the figures attending the blessing seem to indicate a Sephardic ceremony, as the artist spent a long time in Algeria in the years 1855-1860.