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 |
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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