Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn

Lessing and Lavater's Visit to Moses Mendelssohn (German: Lavater und Lessing bei Moses Mendelssohn, 1856) is a painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800–1882, signed at the bottom of the painting M[oritz] Oppenheim f[ecit] 1856). Depicts an imaginary meeting between the philosopher and theologian Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), the playwright and literary critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), and the theologian, founder of criminal anthropology and poet Johann Kasper Lavater (1741–1801). It is in the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (Berkeley, USA).