Alexandre Bida, The Jews in Front of the Solomon Wall, Engraving, 19th Century, Framed

Large framed print entitled Jews before Solomon’s Wall (translated into Hebrew and German): Jewish believers are shown praying before the wall, standing or kneeling.
The artist, Alexandre Bida, has paid close attention to the details of clothing and facial expressions; the importance of the moment is reinforced by the deliberate use of black and white.

Engraving framed in gold (worn and missing) and glass (glass cracked in lower left corner), foxing to paper.

It is inscribed “Dessiné par Bida”, “Alphonse Masson Aqua forti” and “Pollet sculpsit”.

Alexandre Bida (1813-1895) was a painter-engraver from Toulouse, who was a pupil of Eugène Delacroix.
A painter-traveler, at the age of 30 he embarked on a long journey to Greece, Turkey and Syria. with his Orientalist drawings (fashionable at the time), he became one of the leading exponents of this style, with his distinctive use of black and white.
Further journeys took him to Egypt, then to the Holy Land: in 1857, he presented “Réfectoire des moines grecs” at the Salon des Artistes. at the Salon des Artistes, the starting point for a series of drawings devoted to the high places of spirituality (illustration of the Bible for Hachette in 1860).
At the 1967 World’s Fairs, he presented “Le Massacre des mameluks” (The Massacre of the Mamelukes), now on display in the Louvre.
The original of this engraving, The Wailing Wall, is on display at the Musée de Malmaison.

Dimensions with frame: 110 x 135 This piece has an attribution mark,
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