Maurice Ephrussi was a French banker and horsebreeder.
Maurice Ephrussi (first from left) with M. du Bos, Siegfried Lehndorff and Georg von Lehndorff as members of a referee committee at a horse-racing track in Baden-Baden in 1902
Maurice Ephrussi's Prix de Diane winner Serpolette II at Chantilly
The Ephrussi family is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family. The family's bank and properties were seized by the Nazi authorities after the 1938 "Anschluss", the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.
Palais Ephrussi on Vienna's Ringstraße (Universitätsring), opposite the Votivkirche, 2006
Villa Ephrussi on the French Riviera, 2011