Simeon Solomon
A Hebrew Girl (or A Hebrew Maiden)

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Artist Simeon Solomon (English, 1840–1905)English, 1840–1905

CultureEnglish

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A Hebrew Girl (or A Hebrew Maiden)

Date1874

MediumGraphite with white chalk and scratching out on wove paper

DimensionsSheet/Image: 11 5/8 × 8 3/8 in. (29.5 × 21.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment

Object number2018.213

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

Provenance[Sale, London, Phillips Son & Neale, “Fine English Drawings, Watercolours, and Portrait Miniatures,” 21 November 1988, lot 76 (as A Hebrew Maiden)]; unknown collector. (2) Maas Gallery, London, by 2018; [sale, London, Christie’s, “Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art,” 11 July 2018, lot 4]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.

(2) This sale is noted in Carolyn Conroy, “‘He Hath Mingled with the Ungodly’: The Life of Simeon Solomon After 1873, with a Survey of the Extant Works” (PhD diss., University of York, 2009), 115. Neither the drawing’s buyer nor the original owner are known. Direct transfer from the buyer at the Phillips auction to the Maas Gallery is unconfirmed.
Exhibition History"Paintings and Drawings by the Late Simeon Solomon," Baillie Gallery, London, December 9, 1905–January 13, 1906. (Baillie’s catalogue lists the drawing in question—also dated to 1874—as A Hebrew Maiden).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Initialed and dated in graphite, bottom left corner: SS / 1874

None known.

Catalogue raisonnénone known

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