Friday 22 December 2023

Isaac Israëls - part 6

1909 Self portrait with cigarette
oil on canvas 40.5 x 33 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 - 5 also.


This is part 6 of an 11-part series on the works of Isaac Israëls.

Note: The latter part of the works in this post are undated:


c1921 Street in Batavia
oil on canvas 64,3 x 80.3 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

c1922 Javanese Dancer, Indonesia
oil on canvas 118 x 89 cm

c1922 Girls on a bridge in Batavia, Dutch East Indies
oil on canvas 64 x 80 cm

1922 Dancer and gamelan orchestra
oil on canvas 80.5 x 99.5 cm

1923-24 At the beach, Viareggio
oil on canvas 50.4 x 40.5 cm

after 1923 Trevi Fountain, Rome
gouache and watercolour on paper 46.9 x 34 cm
Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1924 An elegant lady sitting on the pier
oil on canvas 60.5 x 39.5 cm

1924 Two horse riders in London
watercolour on paper 34.5 x 24.5 cm

c1924 Revue girls at the Scala theatre, The Hague
oil on canvas 71 x 61 cm

after 1925 View of Rome
watercolour on paper 36.9 x 49.3 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

c1925-26 In the cloth shop of Wijnman, The Hague
watercolour on paper 51.1 x 35.5 cm

c1925-26 The Wijnman fabric store, The Hague
oil on canvas 93 x 73 cm

1925-30 A family on the beach
oil on canvas 50.5 x 60.5 cm

1925-30 Girl at the Lido
oil on canvas 52.5 x 38 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1925-30 Winter in the Hague Forest
oil on canvas 60.5 x 50.5 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1925-34 Spanish Musicians
watercolour on paper 36 x 49 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1926 Portrait of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
oil on panel 35 x 27 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

c1926 Women dancing at a café, The Hague
oil on canvas 80 x 75.5 cm
Private Collection

c1926 Women dancing at a café, The Hague
watercolour on paper 49 x 34 cm

1927 Ancient beauty: visitors at The Piazza della Signoria, Florence
oil on canvas 80.5 x 66 cm

c1927 Boxer Theo Huizenaar
oil on canvas 101 x 66 cm

c1927 Figures on the beach of 'Il Lido di Venezia'
oil on canvas 40.1 x 50.3 cm

1928 Portrait of Beulah Watson
oil on canvas 101 x 65 cm

1928 The Red Rider
oil on canvas? (size not given)

c1928 'Fien de la Mar' performing at the Scala-theatre, The Hague
oil on canvas 100.0 x 80.0 cm

c1928 The Hunt's Return
oil on canvas 101 x 81 cm
Rijksmuseum, Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands

c1929 Portrait of Vincente Escudero
oil on canvas 80 x 64.5 cm

1930 A reclining nude in front of a fire-place
watercolour on paper 35.4 x 50.6 cm

1930 Portrait of the Architect Jan Wils
oil on canvas 51 x 45.5 cm

c1930 Revue girls at Scala, The Hague
oil on canvas 121 x 93.5 cm

c1930 Standing girl
oil on canvas 65 x 40 cm

1931 Portrait of Rommert Casimir
oil on canvas? (size not given)
 Private Collection

1931 Scala theater Den Haag
lithograph 31 x 42 cm

1932 Portrait of Prof.Dr. Sebald Rudolf Steinmetz
oil on canvas 80.5 x 65.5 cm

1933 Portrait of J.P. Fockema Andreae
oil on canvas 100.5 x 80 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

1933 Portrait of W.A.F. Banner
oil on canvas 61 x 50 cm
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

1915-25 On the boulevard of Scheveningen, the pier in the back
oil on canvas 60 x 40 cm
Haags Historisch Museum

n.d. A bustling day at the Pier of Scheveningen
chalk and watercolour on paper 55.5 x 75.5 cm

n.d. A cart pusher on the Prinsengracht
chalk on paper 22 x 32 cm

n.d. A couple strolling, possibly on the Lange Voorhout in The Hague
black chalk and pastel on pape 30 x 23 cm

n.d. A day in the Oosterpark, Amsterdam
watercolour on paper 24.5 x 49.3 cm

n.d. A donkey ride
oil on board 46.1 x 56.1 cm

n.d. A donkey ride on the beach of Scheveningen
pastel on paper 49.5 x 56.6 cm

n.d. A fashion show for clients at Hirsch, Amsterdam
oil on canvas 80.5 x 65 cm

n.d. A fashionable woman
watercolour on paper 35.4 x 25.3 cm

n.d. A female nude
oil on canvas 40.0 x 60.3 cm

n.d. A female nude
oil on canvas 65 x 92 cm

n.d. A female nude reading on a bed
oil on canvas 56.5 x 81 cm

n.d. A flower girl
oil on canvas 75 x 42 cm

n.d. A girl in a summer hat
oil on panel 41 x 31.5 cm

n.d. A lady at the beach
watercolour on paper 50 x 33 cm

n.d. A lady at Wijnmans Store, The Hague
watercolour on paper (size not given)

n.d. A lady in a beach chair
oil on canvas 49.5 x 60 cm