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ANTIQUE #SA1148714

A Half-length Portrait Of A Young Girl Sewing, Artist: Circle Of Jozef Israëls (1824 - 1911)

£809    $1,097    €934
Artist: Circle of Jozef Israëls (1824 - 1911)
 
Title: A Half-Length Portrait of a Young Girl Sewing
 
Period: Circa 1850-1880
 
Provenance: From a private London collection
 
Watercolour on board (see conservation notes within the condition report).
 
Inscribed to top right faintly in pencil ''Helen'', the remaining words indecipherable. Indistinctly dated.
 
Overall size with the frame is 47cm x 35cm x 4cm and the painting is measured at 37cm x 25cm
 
Jozef Israëls (born January 27, 1824, Groningen, Netherlands, died August 12, 1911, The Hague) was a painter and etcher, often called the “Dutch Millet” (a reference to Jean-Fran?ois 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.
 
His earliest works were romantic historical paintings, but after staying at Zandvoort in 1855 he concentrated on peasant scenes - usually with fishermen - which recall works by his contemporaries in France, especially Millet and Daumier.
 
In 1870 Israëls moved from Amsterdam to The Hague; popular among both critics and artists (including the young Vincent van Gogh), he became the best-known member of the Hague School of painters, gaining an international reputation and exhibiting in Paris and London, as well as in Holland. He won the Grand Prix in both the 1889 and 1900 Expositions Universelles in Paris, was awarded the Cross of the Legion d’Honneur in 1867, and was later made a Commander.
 
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 (e.g., A Son of the Chosen People, 1889).
 
His work is in collections worldwide including the Mesdag collection in The Hague; the Van Gogh Museum, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the Dordrecht Gallery, South Holland; and the Aberdeen Art Gallery, the Ashmolean, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Glasgow museum, Museums Sheffield, and the National Gallery, London.
 
The present painting is typical of Israëls'' work. It depicts a young (most likely Breton) girl sewing - a theme visited a number of times by Israëls''. Industrious women sitting sewing in the light from a window are a frequent subject in the work of Jozef Israëls. This work shows a young peasant girl in deep concentration in the act of either knitting or sewing. She holds a needle in one hand and a thread in the other as she attends to a piece of material clasped between both hands.
 
This painting is stylistically, technically, and compositionally comparable to the work of Jozef Israëls. It shows the same moody lighting, contrast between light and d...
Antique #SA1148714, shown on this page, originates from the 19th century. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was made:
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