Monday 17 July 2023

Jozef Israëls - part 3

1904 Jozef Israëls in his studio

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 see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 & 2 also.


This is part 3 of an 8-part series on the works of Jozef Israëls:


1896 Old Isaac
oil on canvas 56 x 37.8 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1896 Self portrait
(attributed to Jozef Israëls)
oil on panel 14 x 11 cm

1896 Study of Sijtje van Bemmel
oil on panel 61 x 46 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1897 Neighbourly Gossip
oil on canvas 40.5 x 62.8 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

c1898 Self Portrait
watercolour on paper 24 x 34 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1899 David
oil on canvas 61.5 x 40.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1899 David's Legs
oil on canvas 48 x 34.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1899 Saul
oil on canvas 60 x 80 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1899 Saul's Legs
oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1899 Seated Woman
oil on canvas 61.5 x 41 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1900-11 Country Boy on a Pole Barrier
oil on panel 28 x 37 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

c1900 A Fisher Girl on a Dune
oil on panel 39.5 x 50.5 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, Madrid

n.d. A Fisher Girl on a Dune
oil on panel 23.5 x 34 cm
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology,
 Oxford, UK

n.d. Girl in the Dunes
watercolour and touches of black chalk on paper
 32.1 x 45.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

n.d. Girl on the Dunes
details not found

n.d. Girl on the dunes
oil on canvas?
details not found

1900 Girl on the Dunes
 oil on canvas 51 x 41 cm

1902 Unloading Barges
oil on canvas 108.9 x 151.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

1902 Woman drinking Coffee
oil on canvas 67.3 x 93.7 cm

1903 A Fisher Girl on the Beach
watercolour on paper 46.5 x 71.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1903 Jewish Wedding
oil on canvas 13.7 x 14.8 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1905 A Laren Scene
oil on canvas 132 x 103 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. A Prayer for the Harvest
oil on canvas 27 x 30.5 cm
( The Angelus - see below)

1880 The Angelus
(after Millet) by Vincent Van Gogh
pencil and chalk on paper
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands


Note: The artworks in the rest of this series are undated:

n.d. A Fisherman with an Anchor
oil on panel 45 x 29.5 cm

n.d. A Fisherwoman in the Breakers
oil on (?) size not given

n.d. A Girl at the Window
oil on wood panel 30 x 20 cm

n.d. A Girl by the Shore
oil on canvas 56 x 47 cm

n.d. A Girl by the Shore
oil on canvas 56 x 47 cm

n.d. A Long Road
watercolour, black chalk, touches of red chalk, and wiping, on cream wood-pulp card 27.8 x 42.8 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

n.d. A Meagre Meal
oil on canvas 35 x 30 cm

n.d. A Moment of Rest
oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm

n.d. A Mother and Child returning Home
oil on panel (size not given)

n.d. A Mother carrying her Child on her Back
pencil on paper 28.3 x 16.6 cm

n.d. A Seamstress
oil on panel 20 x 16 cm

n.d. A Rabbi reading by a Window
watercolour and gouache on paper 33.5 x 23.5 cm

n.d. A Peasant Girl sewing
oil on canvas 41.9 x 28.1 cm

n.d. A peaceful Afternoon
oil on canvas mounted on panel 41 x 28 cm

n.d. A Patron at the Orphanage
pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper
27 x 20 cm

n.d. A Woman and a Child viewing a parting Ship
watercolour on paper 17 x 14.5 cm

n.d. A Young Girl sewing, seated at a Window
oil on canvas 39 x 31 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

n.d. A Young Girl sitting on a Chair
black chalk on tan wove paper 36.7 x 25.7 cm
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
© President and Fellows of Harvard College

n.d. A Young Woman from Katwijk
oil on panel 29,8 x 40.3 cm

n.d. An Angler
watercolour on paper 73.5 x 62 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. An Interior with a Woman seated at a Table by the Window
watercolour on paper 27 x 36.5 cm

n.d. An old Woman praying
watercolour on paper 21 x 15 cm

n.d. An Old Woman watching a Cat feeding from a Saucer
watercolour on paper 25.2 x 36.2 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, UK

n.d. An Unhappy Woman: Domestic Sorrows
oil on canvas 91.7 x 125.7 cm
Newport Museum and Art Gallery, UK


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