Lot 80
80
Jozef Israëls (Groningen 1824-1911 The Hague)
This lot is offered without reserve.
Jozef Israëls (Groningen 1824-1911 The Hague)

Study of a young boy holding a small child on his lap

Details
Jozef Israëls (Groningen 1824-1911 The Hague)
Study of a young boy holding a small child on his lap
signed with initials 'JI'
charcoal and white chalk, stumping, central vertical tear
3½ x 10 5/8 in. (38.6 x 27.1 cm.); and two further drawings by the artist:
a. Study of a shepherd (pl. 10), and
b. An interior (pl. 11) (3)
Provenance
E.G. Cohen; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 21 February 1928, 'L'oeuvre de Jozef Israëls', lot 73, where purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 47.50 guilders and paid on 11 April 1928 (Inventory book: '432. t. Josef Israëls jongen met kind').
Exhibited
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, and Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, Dutch Drawings: Masterpieces of Five Centuries, 1958-59, no. 135.
Groningen, Groninger Museum and Arnhem, Gemeente Museum, Herdenkingstentoonstelling Jozef Israëls 1824-1911, 1961, no. 106.
Groningen, Groninger Museum, and Amsterdam, Joods Historisch Museum, Jozef Israëls 1824-1911, 1999, no. 107 (catalogue by D. Dekkers).
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Lot Essay

A preparatory study for the painting De pannenkoekenbakster (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague), which shows the boy with a woman baking a cake on a hearth and with a girl perched on a stool. Another drawing for the picture is known, which also formed part of the E.G. Cohen collection (lot 72 in the 1928 sale), and there is a watercolour version of the finished composition (H.E. van Gelder, Jozef Israëls, Amsterdam, 1947, illustrated p. 29).

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