Jozef Israëls - part 7

Jozef Israëls by Hermann Struck
drypoint etching 33 x 26.7 cm (plate)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

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 - 6 also.

This is part 7 of an 8-part series on the works of Jozef Israëls:

n.d. Rabbi Studying
oil on canvas 29.5 x 24.5 cm

n.d. Religious Figure
charcoal and pastel on paper 40 x 33 cm

n.d. Rest Day: The Card Players
watercolour on paper laid down on cardboard 29.8 x 43.6 cm

n.d. Return from the market
oil on canvas mounted on panel 31.2 x 41.7 cm

n.d. Returning from the beach
oil on panel 20 x 15 cm

n.d. Returning home
oil on canvas 79 x 60 cm

n.d. Reverie
oil on panel 49.5 x 34.5 cm

n.d. Rider on a country road
pencil and watercolour on paper 16.5 x 26 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Seated Woman
etching on paper 9.3 x 5.7 cm

n.d. Seated old woman, leaning on a stick
pencil and ink on paper 28.4 x 20.1 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Seated
old farmer pencil on paper 30 x 22.4 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Seated Man
watercolour on paper laid down on canvas 58.4 x 47.9 cm

n.d. Seated girl sewing
watercolour and ink on paper 19 x 14.6 cm

n.d. Seated figure of an elderly woman
watercolour on paper 17.5 x 19.5 cm

n.d. Seascape
watercolour on paper 12 x 23 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Scholar sitting in a chair
charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on cream wove paper, laid down on board 33.5 x 45.6 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

n.d. Saying Grace
watercolour and gouache on paper
(size not given)

n.d. Saul
chalk on paper 53 x 78.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Standing woman
pencil on paper (from sketchbook)

n.d. Standing woman in an interior
pencil and ink on paper 12.6 x 18.1 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Standing woman in a landscape
pencil and watercolour on paper 16.5 x 26 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Standing girl by a flower bed
pencil and watercolour on paper 23.5 x 15 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Standing farmer's wife in a barn
pencil on paper 31 x 20.8 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Sleeping woman, in a chair
chalk on paper 29 x 19 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Sleeping dog on a chair
chalk on paper 18.9 x 29 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Sketches of a sitting fishing girl
pencil on paper 23.2 x 30.9 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Sitting old man
etching on paper 8.3 x 4.5 cm

n.d. Sitting girl
oil on wood panel 50 x 33.5 cm

n.d. Sitting girl
oil on wood panel 50 x 33.5 cm

n.d. Studies of women working and reading
pencil and ink on paper 13.1 x 20.8 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

n.d. Study of a young boy holding a small child on his lap
charcoal and white chalk on paper 38.6 x 27.1 cm

n.d. Stumbling old man
etching on paper 23 x 15 cm

n.d. Sunday stroll with a child
charcoal and watercolour with white heightening on paper 27.3 x 20.3 cm

n.d. Terpsichore, Muse of dance and chorus
oil on panel 32 x 27.5 cm

n.d. The Convalescent
watercolour on paper 32.3 x 54.1 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, UK

n.d. The daily catch
oil on canvas 61.5 x 48 cm

n.d. The first steps

black chalk on paper 25.3 x 35.1 cm

n.d. The first steps
oil on canvas? (details not found)

n.d. The Fisherman
etching on paper 40.4 x 27.7 cm

n.d. The fisherman's family
oil on panel 27.6 x 43.7 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

n.d. The frugal meal
oil on coarse linen54.6 x 69.8 cm

n.d. The horse cart
oil on paper laid on panel 32.4 x 55.2 cm

n.d. The little Shepherd
oil on board 23.5 x 14 cm

n.d. The Madonna of Drenthe
oil on canvas 141 x 107 cm

n.d. The maternity bed
oil on canvas 40 x 60 cm

n.d. The new flower
engraving on tan wove paper
57.7 x 33.4 cm (plate)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

n.d. The old sailor
etching on paper  (size not given)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

n.d. The Prophet
oil on cardboard 60 x 50 cm

n.d. The Rabbi
watercolour on paper 51.3 x 35.8 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam