Jozef Israëls artwork • painting • previously for sale Children of the sea
Jozef Israëls
Groningen 1824-1911 Den Haag
1824-1911
Children of the sea
oil on panel 12.9 x 37.6 cm, signed l.l.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: veiling J.J. Biesing, Den Haag, 26 april 1910, lotnr. 74 (met afb.); kunsthandel Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Den Haag, die het schilderij ca. 1917 verkocht aan prof. W. Martin; veiling Van Marle & Bignell, Den Haag, 19 dec. 1961, lotnr. 65 (met afb.).
Literature: Pieter A. Scheen, 'Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars 1750-1880', Den Haag 1981, afb. 491; Arend-Jan Sleijster, 'Willy Sluiter en de Kunstvereeniging 'Katwijk' 1908-1910', Katwijk 2008, pag. 88-89, afb. 92 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Katwijk, Katwijks Museum, 'Willy Sluiter en de Kunstvereeniging Katwijk 1908-1910', 14 okt. 2008-17 jan. 2009.
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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