This is a pair to the previous item no. 5343. This extremely fine scene with lying oriental (Ottoman or Jewish) was executed by prominent Austrian oriental painter Daniel Israel (1859 - Vienna - 1901).

Daniel Israel was first employed as a merchant, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1878 to 1882, from 1882 to 1885 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Johann Caspar Herterich and Otto Seitz.

In 1885 he undertook an Orient journey through the Balkans, Turkey, Palestine and Egypt, where he created travel plans for later to be painted in the Munich studio paintings. He was assigned to the group of "Munich fine and small painters". He painted landscapes, city views and genre pictures.

In the period from 1893 to 1899 he exhibited his works at the exhibitions in Vienna, Budapest and in the Munich Glass Palace. The last two years of his life he spent mentally ill in a Viennese sanatorium.

Literature: "General Artist´s Lexicon " by Thieme/Becker and Benezit. ", Prof.H.Fuchs " Die Österreichischen Maler", Vienna, 1974.

Inscription: signed in German : D.Israel (D.and I. Ligated) and titled München (in Enlish: Munich), lower left.

Technique: oil on wood. Antique oriental style hand-crafted frame with mother-of-pearl inlays.

Measurements: unframed w 6 1/4" x h 4 1/8" (15,7 x 10,5 m), framed w 12" x h 10" (30,5 x 25,5 cm).

Condition: in good condition.