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Set of portraits contrasting a Jewish and a Gentile couple

Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.522

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    Set of portraits contrasting a Jewish and a Gentile couple

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Side by side double portraits in pencil, one of a Gentile gentleman and an Orthodox Jewish man, and the other of an Orthodox woman and a Gentile lady, drawn in mid to late 19th century America. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
    Artwork Title
    Gentleman and Jew / Jewess and Lady
    Date
    creation:  approximately 1870
    Geography
    creation: United States
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Signature
    front, bottom left corner, both drawings, pencil : Marcus.
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Artist: Marcus
    Biography
    The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.

    Physical Details

    Classification
    Art
    Category
    Drawings
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, pencil

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Special Collection
    Katz Ehrenthal Collection
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 18:13:48
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