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The Jews of Tangier

Orientalist Drawings by Dehodencq

  • Date iconMay 29 2012 - September 8 2012
  • Curator: Shlomit Steinberg
  • drawings, oil paintings, Prints
  • : Alfred Dehodencq

This exhibition of 40 Orientalist drawings, prints, and oil paintings highlights the versatile, turbulent career of the French Romantic artist Alfred Dehodencq (1822-1882), placing special emphasis on the period (1853-63) he spent in the Moroccan city of Tangier. During his frequent sojourns there, the artist became acquainted with the local Jewish community, drawing and then painting its members in times of happiness and sorrow, trial and festivity. The majority of the drawings and prints on display were recently gifted to the Museum by Dr. Philippe Cohen and Gerard Levy, Paris.