Tabletop piece with a sheet of metal in the figure of Shylock by the actor Louis Bouwmeester. Holland, 1923. Stamped.

Louis Bouwmeester (1877-1937) who played Shylock (the Merchant of Venice). Art by Toon Dupuis, Holland. Size: 11x13.2cm, the table piece is 17cm, width 13.5cm, depth 13.5cm. Very good condition. Bouwmeester was one of the great actors of Holland, played in silent movies and many plays. Filled the role of Shylock, one of the most extraordinary roles by Shakespeare. On the one hand, a suffering man, strange and isolated in the community in which he lives, and on the other an anti-Semitic stereotype of a Jew taking interest, mean, and vengeful, as was painted throughout history. Among the well-known and popular plays by Shakespeare, performed repeatedly in theater and film.