Mother and Child on a Seashore
Jozef Israëls
c. 1890
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
48.4 × 74 cm (19 × 29 1/8 in.); Framed: 61 × 86.4 × 7 cm (24 × 34 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
oil on panel
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47153
About the Artist
Jozef Israëls · 1824–1911
Israëls was born in Groningen to poor Jewish parents. He trained as an artist in Groningen and Amsterdam, and between 1845 and 1855, he expanded his training by travelling to Paris, Dusseldorf, and the artist's colony at Oosterbeek. However, the most influential locations he visited were the Dutch seaside towns of Zandvoort and Katwijk, were he adopted genre painting as a means of documenting the ...