Jozef Israëls artwork • painting • previously for sale At the cooking pot
Jozef Israëls
Groningen 1824-1911 Den Haag
1824-1911
At the cooking pot
oil on canvas 43.4 x 53.3 cm, signed l.l.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 1990; coll. Mijndert Pon, Nijkerk (1931-2014), daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van zijn familie.
Literature: vgl. Max Eisler, 'Josef Israëls', Londen 1924, plaat 39.
Jozef Israels was a pupil of J.A. Kruseman and the Rijksacademie Amsterdam. From 1845 to 1847, and later in 1853, he also studied in Paris. In the Louvre Museum he copied the works of Old Masters like Rembrandt and Velasquez as well as acquainting himself with French Realism. Back in the Netherlands he became intrigued by the hard lives of the fishing folk of Katwijk and Zandvoort and made this a theme of his work. In the 1870s he also discovered the ‘picturesque’ lives of peasants from Het Gooi, near Amsterdam. Already during his lifetime he garnered much acclaim for his romantic and realist paintings, both at home and abroad.
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