Bidspirit auction | LEVY, ALPHONSE. Scènes Familiales Juives.

LEVY, ALPHONSE. Scènes Familiales Juives. Frontispiece and 21 charming illustrated plates of 19th-century rural Alsatian Jewish life and custom, each captioned in French and (pidgin!)-Yiddish. Preface by Bernard Lazare. Five pages of notes at the end by the artist concerning the images. Modern boards with original pictorial wrappers laid down and bound in (chipped). Several leaves silked or laid down. Folio. Paris, c. 1900.     For an interesting comparison between the two Jewish artists Alphonse Levy and his contemporary Moritz Oppenheim, see N.L. Kleeblatt, ”Illustrating Jewish Lifestyles on Opposite Banks of the Rhine: Alphonse Levy’s Alsatian Peasants and Moritz Daniel Oppenheim’s Frankfurt Burghers” in: Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 16/17 (1990/91) pp. 53-63.