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Jozef Israels

Jozef Israels

Artist

WA-00027716

Printmaking

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None documented

1

Institutional Exhibitions

53

Works in Collection

72

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WikidataQ528460 ULAN500012980

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Drawings from the Kr�ller-M�ller National Museum, Otterlo

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1973

Source Registry (2)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/2840
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/jozef-israels
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

About

Why this artist matters now

Jozef Israels painted peasant and working-class life in a realist idiom distinguished by precise attention to light and texture. A central figure of the Hague School, he sustained a decades-long engagement with rural Dutch interiors and village communities, rendering their domestic spaces and labor with unflinching observation. His work bridges 19th-century Dutch genre painting and the emergence of modern social realism, establishing a visual vocabulary that would influence northern European painting into the 20th century.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago

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Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (53)

The Good Samaritan

The Good Samaritan

1905 · Charcoal and red chalk heightened with white chalk, with traces of purple pastel, over graphite on grayish-green wove paper

Sheet: 47.3 × 65.6 cm (18 5/8 × 25 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Vissersmeisje op het strand

Vissersmeisje op het strand

1903 · brush on paper, watercolor (paint)

width: 715 cm, height: 465 cm

Jewish Wedding, Thought to be the Wedding of the Artist's Daughter Mathilde and G.D. Cohen Tervaert, 1903

Jewish Wedding, Thought to be the Wedding of the Artist's Daughter Mathilde and G.D. Cohen Tervaert, 1903

1903 · canvas, oil paint (paint)

height: 137 cm, width: 148 cm

Stumbling Old Man

1898 · Etching and drypoint

Plate 6 x 4" (15.1 x 10.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Old Age

1890 · Oil on canvas

120.1 × 87 × 3.2 cm (47 1/4 × 34 1/4 × 1 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seated Old Man

1890 · Black pastel, with charcoal and stumping, on ivory wove paper

40.5 × 33.5 cm (16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Old Age

1890 · Oil on canvas

120.1 × 87 × 3.2 cm (47 1/4 × 34 1/4 × 1 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seated Old Man

1890 · Black pastel, with charcoal and stumping, on ivory wove paper

40.5 × 33.5 cm (16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Sand Barge

1887 · oil paint (paint), canvas

width: 90 cm, height: 62 cm

Mother and Child on a Seashore

Mother and Child on a Seashore

1885 · Oil on panel

48.4 × 74 cm (19 × 29 1/8 in.); Framed: 61 × 86.4 × 7 cm (24 × 34 × 2 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mother and Child on a Seashore

Mother and Child on a Seashore

1885 · Oil on panel

48.4 × 74 cm (19 × 29 1/8 in.); Framed: 61 × 86.4 × 7 cm (24 × 34 × 2 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Old Woman Warming her Hands

Old Woman Warming her Hands

1883 · Etching on paper

Image: 38.6 × 28.2 cm (15 1/4 × 11 1/8 in.); Plate: 41.3 × 29.3 cm (16 5/16 × 11 9/16 in.); Sheet: 49.7 × 31.7 cm (19 5/8 × 12 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Old Woman Warming her Hands

Old Woman Warming her Hands

1883 · Etching on paper

Image: 38.6 × 28.2 cm (15 1/4 × 11 1/8 in.); Plate: 41.3 × 29.3 cm (16 5/16 × 11 9/16 in.); Sheet: 49.7 × 31.7 cm (19 5/8 × 12 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Smoker

1882 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Smoker

1882 · Engraving on tan wove paper

Plate: 40.4 × 27.8 cm (15 15/16 × 11 in.); Sheet: 50 × 32 cm (19 11/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Girl with basket seated on the shore

Girl with basket seated on the shore

1879 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

Peeling Potatoes

Peeling Potatoes

1875 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Mother

1875 · Etching on paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Baby in His Chair

Baby in His Chair

1875 · etching

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Mrs. Israëls

Portrait of Mrs. Israëls

1875 · etching

Sheet: 41.7 x 26 cm (16 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.); Platemark: 12.1 x 7.8 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Mother

1875 · Etching on board

Image: 15.4 × 23.4 cm (6 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.); Sheet: 28 × 35.5 cm (11 1/16 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Mother

1875 · Etching on paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Girl with a Spade

Girl with a Spade

1873 · Etching on paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Girl with a Spade

Girl with a Spade

1873 · Etching on paper

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (5)

53 published of 55 catalogued · 53 with image

Art Institute Chicago
34 published34 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published7 img
Rijksmuseum
7 published7 img
The Met
3 published3 img
MoMA
2 publishedof 4 catalogued2 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

The Pancakes
1870 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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The Smoker
1882 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Girl with basket seated on the shore
1879 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Peeling Potatoes
1875 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Vissersmeisje op het strand
1903 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Een hengelaar
1834 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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De schoenmaker
1834 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Children of the Sea
1872 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Jewish Wedding, Thought to be the Wedding of the Artist's Daughter Mathilde and G.D. Cohen Tervaert, 1903
1903 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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'De zieke buurman'
1834 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Images

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Artsy

The Smoker (1882)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Peeling Potatoes (c. 1880)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Girl with basket seated on the shore (1879)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Stumbling Old Man

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Mrs. Israëls (1875)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Pancakes (c. 1875)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Mother (1875)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Drawings from the Kr�ller-M�ller National Museum, Otterlo

New York · 1973