Jozef Israels: Children Playing By The Seaside

Works of art have always been reproduced: not necessarily cleverly, not necessarily cleanly, and often with an eye toward profit. Those concerned with this important aspect of the art world have often paid attention to how these reproductions have helped to form the reputations of artists and their works, while ...more

Jozef Isra‘ls (1824-1911), famous for his portrayals of life in Holland's fishing villages and of scenes from Jewish and peasant life, was the Žminence grise of the Hague School. Contemporaries saw him as a latter day Rembrandt, whose art gave his subjects a voice. This representative and extensive survey of ...more