'Turning homewards'
Jozef Israëls
1860 - 1911
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
58; 13; 45
About this artwork
'Huiswaartskeren'. Een jonge boer en boerin lopen tegen de avond over een pad onder bomen langs een korenveld. De vrouw draagt een mand aan de arm.
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 ...