'Malancholy'
Jozef Israëls
1880 - 1899
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
h 57cm × w 45.5cm × d 12cm
Classification
painting
Museum
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
About this artwork
'Melancholie'. Buste van een jonge vrouw, naar links, met het hoofd steunend op de linkerhand.
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 ...