Self-Portrait

This portrait of Jacob Judah Leon Templo, one of three that are known, is believed to be a self-portrait. In it, he clutches a coat of arms featuring a lion, which he himself designed, and holds a pointer and a rope or thread. It was featured on a broadsheet that accompanied one of Templo's models of the Tabernacle. 

Credits

Courtesy Allard Pierson – the Collections of the University of Amsterdam, Ros. A 7-1.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

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