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Provenance
Dr. Rudolf Beres, Cracow.
Joseph Stieglitz, Tel Aviv.
Asher Frenkel, Tel Aviv.
Mr Schneibalk, Jerusalem.
David Dunitz, Tel Aviv.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 27 June 1984, lot 161.
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, UK.
Exhibited
Cracow, National Museum, Memorial Exhibition, 1932, no. 55.
Jerusalem, The Bezalel National Museum, Maurycy Gottlieb 1856-1879 Commemorative Exhibition on the Occasion of the Centennial of his Birth, February - March 1956, no. 9.
Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, In the Flower of Youth, Maurycy Gottlieb 1856-1879, 16 May - 20 July 1991, and Warsaw, National Musuem of Warsaw, 19 August - 20 October, 1991, no. 24.
Literature
Waldman, 1932, p. 35, illustrated.
Exh. cat. Maurycy Gottlieb 1856-1879 Commemorative Exhibition on the Occasion of the Centennial of his Birth, Jerusalem, 1956, no. 9, illustrated.
Soltysowa, 1877, p. 178.
Nehama Guralnik, Eugen Kolb, Jerzy Malinowski, In the Flower of Youth, Maurycy Gottlieb 1856-1879, exh. cat., Tel Aviv, 1991, p. 139, illustrated.
The present lot depicts a scene from Nathan the Wise. The play, which advocates religious tolerance, offered a rich source of subjects for Gottlieb, when he was living in Vienna, and working under the tutelage of Heinrich von Angeli. Gottlieb produced a number of versions of the present composition.