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Artists›Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

1868

WA-00002654

PaintingSurrealism

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None documented

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80%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ2455247

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1 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%

About

Why this artist matters now

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita was a Dutch graphic artist active in the years before the Second World War. His pupils included graphic artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972). A Sephardic Jew, in his old age he was sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis, where he was gassed along with his wife.

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Surrealism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

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Museum Collections

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (9)

Schetsboek met 18 bladen

1943 · brush on paper, cardboard, pencil, watercolor (paint), linen (material), ink

thickness: 8 cm, height: 143 cm, width: 224 cm, width: 445 cm

Rijksmuseum

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Sambar Deer (Aristoteles Hert)

1928 · Woodcut

Sheet: 17 13/16 × 16 5/16 in. (45.2 × 41.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cactus with Self-Portrait

1926 · Woodcut; sixth or seventh state of eleven

Sheet: 23 13/16 × 17 11/16 in. (60.5 × 45 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Extase

1922 · cardboard

width: 172 cm, height: 351 cm

Rijksmuseum

Vrouw in stoel

1913 · paper

height: 248 cm, width: 295 cm

Rijksmuseum

Hert

1912 · paper

height: 134 cm, width: 195 cm

Rijksmuseum

Dromedaris

1912 · paper

width: 235 cm, height: 150 cm

Rijksmuseum

Een lamme maraboe

1909 · paper

height: 190 cm, width: 145 cm

Rijksmuseum

Boekomslag van leer met geperst dessin van vissen en vlinders

1902 · pressing on leather

length: 17.6 cm, width: 25 cm

Rijksmuseum

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Artwork sources (2)

9 published of 9 catalogued · 7 with image

Rijksmuseum
7 published7 img
The Met
2 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)

7 entries · 1 sources

Schetsboek met 18 bladen
1943 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Boekomslag van leer met geperst dessin van vissen en vlinders
1902 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Vrouw in stoel
1913 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Hert
1912 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Dromedaris
1912 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Extase
1922 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Een lamme maraboe
1909 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Images

21 assets

Rijksmuseum

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Rijksmuseum

Boekomslag van leer met geperst dessin van vissen en vlinders (in or before 1902)

Rijksmuseum

Schetsboek met 18 bladen (1943-12-13 - 1944-01-25)

Rijksmuseum

Artsy

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Movements1

Surrealism

Collections2

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Rijksmuseum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Background

Education

Academy of Art

Visual Arts

Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten

Visual Arts

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