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This chart displaying the colors of gems and minerals is from A Popular Treatise on Gems and Minerals by Lewis Feuchtwanger, a German Jewish immigrant to the United States, a doctor who was also well…
Max Liebermann frequently traveled to Amsterdam. He was attracted to the city because of its connection to Rembrandt, whom he idolized. But he came back again and again, drawn to Amsterdam’s Jewish…
Don Antonio Lopes Suasso (1614–1685) was born in Bordeaux, one of ten children born to New Christian parents of Portuguese Jewish origin. Apparently, his parents intended for Antonio to enter the…
The Canal Street Market, built in 1829, was the largest and most popular market in Cincinnati, where artist Henry Mosler’s family settled after immigrating from Germany, when he was eight years old…
In the 1730s, the German Jewish Franks-Levy family commissioned an artist to create portraits of three generations of the family. These paintings are all attributed to Gerardus Duykinck, a member of a…
Like other paintings by Yehudah Pen, The Watchmaker depicts an encounter between a traditional Jew and modernity. Here, a traditionally dressed watchmaker reads the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper Haynt…
Camille Pissarro painted landscapes that, unusually for the time, included industrial elements, like this sugar-beet factory near Pissarro’s home in Pontoise. Like other impressionist paintings, this…
The Dutch Sewing School is from a period in Max Liebermann’s career when Dutch peasants were a common subject in his work. The sewing school seen here was in an orphanage in Amsterdam. While he…
This hand-colored mezzotint depicts a street peddler selling sewing supplies and other dry goods in London. A growing number of Moroccan Muslim and Jewish traders came to England in the late…
