Friday 15 December 2023

Isaac Israëls - part 3

c1905 Self Portrait
oil on cardboard laid down on panel 56 x 40.5 cm

Isaac Israëls was born in Amsterdam in 1865, the son of the painter Jozef Israëls. Early in his life, his family moved to The Hague. During his life as an artist Isaac exchanged ‘the grey' pallet of the Haagse school (the Hague school) for a more colourful and lively pallet.

Israels was associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.

Between 1880 and 1882 he studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he met George Hendrik Breitner who was to become a lifelong friend.

He returned to Amsterdam where he was asked to join the Kring der Tachtigers (the group of Eighty). Cityscapes featuring Amsterdam and Parisian street life, fashionable ladies, the interiors of cafés and sewing workshops are amongst his most popular scenes. He is considered to be one of the most important Dutch impressionists.

Isaac Israëls died in 1934 in The Hague.


For a more in-depth biography see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 & 2 also.


This is part 3 of an 11-part series on the works of Isaac Israëls:


c1905 Seamstress smoking
pastel on paper 57.0 x 47.0 cm

1906 Girl reading
watercolour on paper 50 x 35 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1906-09 Two Girls
oil on canvas 61.3 x 38.4 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

c1906-10 An elegant lady reading in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris
watercolour on paper 48 x 33.5 cm

c1906 A sunny day at the Bois de Boulogne, Paris
oil on canvas 33 x 46.5 cm 

c1906 Bois de Boulogne, Paris 
oil on canvas 46.3 x 33 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

c1906 Girl reading
oil on canvas 75 x 66.9 cm
Kunstmueum den Haag

c1906 In the Bois de Boulogne near Paris
oil on canvas 33 x 46 cm
Rijksmueum, Amsterdam

c1907-14 Young woman standing in a boat on the Thames
watercolour on paper 50.4 x 35.1 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1908 Drummer Girl
oil on canvas
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

c1908 Portrait of the artist's father Jozef Israels
oil on canvas 50.5 x 42.5 cm

 before 1909 Essayeuses chez Paquin
oil on canvas 100 x 70.3 cm
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht


1909 In a café
watercolour on paper 25 x 21.5 cm

1909 The Kalverstraat, celebrating the birth of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, 1 May 1909
charcoal on paper 55 x 62.5 cm

c1909-12 In the Café
oil on canvas 73.5 x 54 cm

1910 Coiffer Sainte Cathrine
oil on canvas 73.5 x 60.5 cm

1910 Summer Day in Paris
oil on canvas (size not given)

c1910-11 Dress Show at Hirsch
oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands

c1910-12 Andrea and Jan de Bloeme with their Governess, Scheveningen
oil on canvas 57 x 75.5 cm

c1910-12cLa belle Parisienne
oil on canvas laid down on panel 46 x 36 cm

c1910-12 Luxembourg Gardens: A Summer's Day in Paris
oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm

c1910-15 A Dancer
oil on canvas 73.5 x 61 cm

c1910-15 Portrait of a young woman
oil on panel 23 x 9.5 cm

1910-20 Gamelan Orchestra
oil on canvas 38.5 x 56 cm
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Amsterdam

1910-20 Young Woman
oil on canvas 44.5 x 33.5 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1910-Seamstresses in a workshop
oil on board 40.6 x 55.9 cm

c1910 A horse-drawn carriage in a park
charcoal on paper 41.5 x 28 cm

c1910 An Elegant Lady on a Balcony, Rue de Clignancourt, Paris
oil on canvas 86.5 x 51 cm

c1910 Steam carousel at night
oil on canvas 48 x 55.5 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

c1910 The beach, Viareggio
oil on canvas 50.2 x 40.0 cm

c1910 Woman with a cigarette
oil on canvas (size not given)
Private Collection

c1910 Wrestler Tent
oil on canvas 52.5 x 74 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1911 A table in restaurant Le Perroquet, Paris
oil on canvas 100 x 66 cm

1911 Untitled
watercolour and charcoal on paper 33 x 25 cm

c1911 Model Study
oil on canvas 74.5 x 45.5 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

c1912 Portrait of young woman (Jeune Espagnole)
oil on canvas 46.2 x 32.5 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1913 Ballet-dancer dressing
oil on canvas 80 x 40 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1913 Café Chantant with the dance group la Feria, Paris
oil on canvas 81.5 x 65.5 cm

1913-14 A horsewoman, Hyde Park, London
oil on canvas 63.8 x 76.2 cm

1913-14 Ballet School in London
details not found

1913-14 Picadilly Circus, London
watercolour on painters board 45 x 29.5 cm

c1913-14 An elegant lady on the Thames, London
oil on canvas 92 x 72 cm

c1913-14 Reclining nude, London
oil on canvas 41 x 61.5 cm

c1913-14 Regent Street, London
 oil on canvas 91 x 72 cm

c1913-14 In the dressing room of the Ballet School, London
oil on canvas 91 x 71.5-cm

1913-15 Lady with a red hat on the river Thames, London
oil on canvas 66 x 40 cm

1913-15 Morning Ride in Hyde Park, London
oil on canvas 50.5 x 61.5 cm

c1913-15 Rotten Row. Hyde Park
pastel on paper 24 x 33 cm

c1913 Ballerina dressing
oil on panel 55.2 x 37.8 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

c1913 Dancers in a Ballet School
watercolour on paper 43 x 54 cm

c1913 Horseback riding in Hyde Park, Rotton Row, London
oil on canvas 51.5 x 69 cm

c1913 Regent Street, London
oil on canvas 72 x 91 cm