interior with children, Jozef Israëls

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Jozef Israëls, interior with children
Jozef Israëls, interior with children
Jozef Israëls
interior with children
late 1800s
Jozef Israëls, artist
1824–1911
interior with children, late 1800s
Where object was made: Netherlands
Material/technique: oil; canvas
Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 50.2 x 64.8 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 19 3/4 x 25 1/2 in
Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial
Accession number: 1928.7146
Not on display
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Recently conserved for this exhibition, Jozef Israëls’s painting depicts a young girl who looks on as a boy peels potatoes in a domestic space. At the time that Thayer purchased Interior with Children, Israëls, a Dutch Jewish artist, was at the height of his fame. The demand for his work was so strong that publishers reproduced, circulated, and sold prints after his paintings on an international market. While Israëls specialized in scenes of agricultural life and fishermen at work, this painting relates to others in which he explores the themes of children preparing food and families at mealtime. A 1909 letter from the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, with an inscription by the art dealer Henry Reinhardt, suggests that the painting was once displayed in that museum’s galleries, possibly also in the exhibition Contemporary Dutch Paintings held earlier that year.

Exhibitions

Civic Leader and Art Collector: Sallie Casey Thayer and an Art Museum for KU
Celka Straughn, curator
2017–2018

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