Bidspirit auction | SINZHEIM, JOSEPH DAVID BEN ISAAC.

SINZHEIM, JOSEPH DAVID BEN ISAAC. ”Chef du Grand Sanhedrin, Premier Grand Rabbin et President du Consistoire Central Israelite a Paris.” Distinguished half-length engraved portrait, wearing his distinctive twin-peaked fur hat. Engraved by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon after a painting by Michel-François Damane-Demartrais. Touch stained at top margin. 11 x 15.5 inches (27 x 39 cm). (Paris), circa 1810. Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg, Yosef David Sinzheim (1745-1812) was the senior member of the Assembly of Notables convened by Napoleon in 1806. Thereafter, Sinzheim was appointed president (Nasi) of the famed Grand Sanhedrin of Paris, a testament to his eminence as a Halachic authority - recognized as such even by Napoleon himself.