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| 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:
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| 1878 Alone in the World oil on canvas 90 x 139 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| 1878 Alone in the World watercolour on paper 33 x 49.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| 1878 We grow Old oil on canvas 160 x 101 cm Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague |
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| c1879 Girl with Basket seated on the Shore etching on laid paper 15.9 x 22.9 cm (plate) Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1879 Feeding the Pet Goat oil on panel 50 x 33.6 cm |
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| 1879 Children on the Beach etching on paper 15 x 23 cm |
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| 1879 Anxious Moments (after Jozef Israëls) etching and drypoint on paper 45.7 x 55.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1880 When One gets Old: By the Fire oil on canvas 40 x 29.5 cm Museum Abtei, Lisbon |
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| 1883 When One gets Old: By the Fire oil on canvas 70 x 50.5 cm Gemeentemuseum, The Hague |
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| n.d. When One gets Old: By the Fire print on wove paper 50 x 31 cm |
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| 1880-99 Melancholy oil on canvas 57 x 45.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| 1880-99 Old Man and Baby oil on canvas 110 x 148 cm The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD |
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| c1880 A Sea Urchin oil on panel 25.4 x 19 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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| n.d. A Sea Urchin oil on panel 62.2 x 55.2 cm |
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| c1880 Peeling Potatoes etching on paper (size not given) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| c1880 The Seamstress watercolour on paper 41.4 x 30.4 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| c1880 Young Navigators oil on panel 45.1 x 32.4 cm |
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| 1881 Sewing School at Katwijk oil on canvas 111.4 x 144.7 cm |
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| 1882 Old Friends (Silent Conversation) oil on canvas 132.4 x 175.4 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1882 Peasant Family at Table oil on canvas 71 x 105 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| 1882 The Smoker engraving on tan wove paper 40.4 x 27.8 cm (plate) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1882 Interior of a Peasant Hut oil on canvas 60 x 72 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| 1883 Old woman by the Hearth etching on paper 41.3 x 29.4 cm |
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| 1885-95 Mother and Child on a Seashore oil on panel 48.4 x 74 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1885-99 An Old Man writing by Candlelight oil on canvas 65 x 54.6 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| c1885-1911 Cows in a Meadow by the Water pencil and watercolour on paper (from a sketchbook) Rijksmueum, Amsterdam |
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| c1885-1911 Landscape with a Group of Cows under a Tree pencil and watercolour on paper (from a sketchbook) Rijksmueum, Amsterdam |
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| 1886 Tending the Fire oil on board 30.5 x 25.4 cm |
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| before 1887 Expectation oil on canvas 181.6 x 137.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1887 The Sand Barge oil on canvas 62 x 90 cm |
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| c1888 Son of the Ancient People watercolour on paper 58 x 45.2 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| c1889 A Son of the Ancient Race oil on canvas 111.4 x 85.7 cm The Jewish Museum, New York |
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| c1898 Son of the Chosen People oil on canvas 70 x 53 cm |
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| after1890 On the Dunes oil on panel 19.8 x 18 cm Worcester Art Museum, UK |
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| 1890 The Joy of Motherhood oil on. canvas 106 x 129 cm |
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| c1890-95 Girl on a Dune oil on panel 11 x 16.5 cm The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK |
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| c1890 Children at the Seashore oil on canvas 54.3 x 82.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| c1890 Grace before the Meal oil on canvas 104.1 x 141.3 cm |
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| c1890 Mother and Child on a Seashore oil on panel 48.4 x 74 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1890 The Mother etching on paper (size not given) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1891 Tomb of Mr. Carel Vosmaer in Territet pencil and watercolour on paper 33.6 x 23.5 cm |
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| before 1892 Mother and Child oil on canvas 127.6 x 95.3 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1892 On Country Roads and Fields oil on canvas 128 x 185 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| 1893 Louis Jacques Veltman, Actor (1817-1907) oil on canvas 81.7 x 61.4 cm Rijksmuseumn, Amsterdam |
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| 1894 Alone in the World photomechanical wood engraving on paper 12.6 x 19.8 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| 1895 Bible Reading oil on panel 31.9 x 17.5 cm |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1896 Meditation oil on canvas 50.7 x x 461 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
