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Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn, 1856
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This painting portrays an imagined meeting of Jewish scholar Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), and the Swiss theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)…

Contributor:

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1856

Subjects:

Enlightenment, Philosophy, Leisure, Christian-Jewish relations, Conversion

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of two men seated at a table with another man standing behind them, and woman in doorway carrying tray of tea.