Jozef Israëls - part 2

 

Jozef Israëls 1881-85 by Maurits Verveer

Jozef Israëls, (1824 Groningen, Netherlands - 1911 The Hague), painter and etcher, often called the “Dutch Millet” (a reference to Jean-François Millet). Israëls was the leader of the Hague School of peasant genre painting, which flourished in the Netherlands between 1860 and 1900. He began his studies in Amsterdam and from 1845 to 1847 worked in Paris under the academic painters Horace Vernet and Paul Delaroche.

Israëls first tried to establish himself as a painter of Romantic portraits and conventional historical pictures but had achieved little success when in 1855 ill health compelled him to leave Amsterdam for the fishing village of Zandvoort, near Haarlem. That change of scenery revolutionised his art: he turned to realistic and compassionate portrayals of the Dutch peasantry and fisherfolk. In 1871 he moved to The Hague, and he often worked in nearby Scheveningen. 

Besides oils, Israëls worked in watercolours and was an etcher of the first rank. His later works in all media express a tragic sense of life and are generally treated in broad masses of light and shade. His painting style was influenced by Rembrandt’s later works, and, like Rembrandt, Israëls often painted the poor Jews of the Dutch ghettos. His son Isaac (1865–1934), also a painter, adopted an Impressionist technique and subject matter and had some influence on his father’s later work.

For more biographical information, and for earlier works, see part 1 also.

This is part 2 of an 8-part series on the works of Jozef Israëls:

1878 Alone in the World
oil on canvas 90 x 139 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1878 Alone in the World
watercolour on paper 33 x 49.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1878 We grow Old
oil on canvas 160 x 101 cm
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

c1879 Girl with Basket seated on the Shore
etching on laid paper 15.9 x 22.9 cm (plate)
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI

1879 Feeding the Pet Goat
oil on panel 50 x 33.6 cm

1879 Children on the Beach
etching on paper 15 x 23 cm

1879 Anxious Moments (after Jozef Israëls)
etching and drypoint on paper 45.7 x 55.6 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1880 When One gets Old: By the Fire
oil on canvas 40 x 29.5 cm
Museum Abtei, Lisbon

1883 When One gets Old: By the Fire
oil on canvas 70 x 50.5 cm
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

n.d. When One gets Old: By the Fire
print on wove paper 50 x 31 cm

1880-99 Melancholy
oil on canvas 57 x 45.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1880-99 Old Man and Baby
oil on canvas 110 x 148 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

c1880 A Sea Urchin
oil on panel 25.4 x 19 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, UK

n.d. A Sea Urchin
 oil on panel 62.2 x 55.2 cm

c1880 Peeling Potatoes
etching on paper (size not given)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

c1880 The Seamstress
watercolour on paper 41.4 x 30.4 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

c1880 Young Navigators
oil on panel 45.1 x 32.4 cm

1881 Sewing School at Katwijk
oil on canvas 111.4 x 144.7 cm

1882 Old Friends (Silent Conversation)
oil on canvas 132.4 x 175.4 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1882 Peasant Family at Table
oil on canvas 71 x 105 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

1882 The Smoker
engraving on tan wove paper 40.4 x 27.8 cm (plate)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

c1882 Interior of a Peasant Hut
oil on canvas 60 x 72 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1883 Old woman by the Hearth
etching on paper 41.3 x 29.4 cm

1885-95 Mother and Child on a Seashore
oil on panel 48.4 x 74 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

c1885-99 An Old Man writing by Candlelight
oil on canvas 65 x 54.6 cm
The National Gallery, London

c1885-1911 Cows in a Meadow by the Water
pencil and watercolour on paper
(from a sketchbook)
Rijksmueum, Amsterdam

c1885-1911 Landscape with a Group of Cows under a Tree
pencil and watercolour on paper
(from a sketchbook)
Rijksmueum, Amsterdam

1886 Tending the Fire
oil on board 30.5 x 25.4 cm

before 1887 Expectation
oil on canvas 181.6 x 137.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1887 The Sand Barge
oil on canvas 62 x 90 cm

c1888 Son of the Ancient People
watercolour on paper 58 x 45.2 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

c1889 A Son of the Ancient Race
oil on canvas 111.4 x 85.7 cm
The Jewish Museum, New York

c1898 Son of the Chosen People
oil on canvas 70 x 53 cm

after1890 On the Dunes
 oil on panel 19.8 x 18 cm
Worcester Art Museum, UK

1890 The Joy of Motherhood
oil on. canvas 106 x 129 cm

c1890-95 Girl on a Dune
oil on panel 11 x 16.5 cm
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology,
 Oxford, UK

c1890 Children at the Seashore
oil on canvas 54.3 x 82.7 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

c1890 Grace before the Meal
oil on canvas 104.1 x 141.3 cm

c1890 Mother and Child on a Seashore
oil on panel 48.4 x 74 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

c1890 The Mother
etching on paper (size not given)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1891 Tomb of Mr. Carel Vosmaer in Territet
pencil and watercolour on paper 33.6 x 23.5 cm

before 1892 Mother and Child
oil on canvas 127.6 x 95.3 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1892 On Country Roads and Fields
oil on canvas 128 x 185 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1893 Louis Jacques Veltman, Actor (1817-1907)
oil on canvas 81.7 x 61.4 cm
Rijksmuseumn, Amsterdam

1894 Alone in the World
photomechanical wood engraving on paper 12.6 x 19.8 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

1895 Bible Reading
oil on panel 31.9 x 17.5 cm

c1895 Refreshment
charcoal and black chalk, with stumping and traces of graphite, heightened with touches of white chalk, on cream wove paper 32.1 x 48.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

c1895 Seated Old Man
black pastel, with charcoal and stumping, on ivory wove paper 40.5 x 33.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1896 Meditation
oil on canvas 50.7 x x 461 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam