Self-Portrait

Jacob Judah Leon Templo

After 1652

Portrait painting of man in moustache and collar, holding rod, rope, and ornate book, facing viewer, framed in decorative border.

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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Creator Bio

Jacob Judah Leon Templo

1602–1675

Jacob Judah Leon Templo, born in Hamburg to a family of former New Christians, became a prominent rabbi, teacher, and scholar of the Netherlands, where he moved at a young age. He was most famous for his models of the Temple of Solomon and Tabernacle of Moses, which were exhibited for many years in traveling exhibitions. He also wrote treatises on the ark and cherubim, which he illustrated himself. Indeed, his models and the pamphlets about them overshadowed all his other works, among them a Spanish poetical translation of Psalms. Leon became acquainted with King Charles II of England while the royal was in exile in Holland, and he visited London in 1675. Leon also drew over two hundred figures and vignettes to illustrate talmudic subjects.


 

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