Lévy (Alphonse)

Portrait of a Rabbi,

signed upper right, charcoal with white chalk highlights, on laid paper, some short tears in margin, some spotting, 59 x 45 cm, n.d.

***Alphonse Lévy (1843-1918) grew up in the Alsace. Although he moved to Paris at seventeen to study art, his best-known works depict the rural Jewish community of his childhood.