The Fisherman
Artist
Jozef Israëls
(Dutch, 1824 - 1911)
Date1883
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 19 3/4 × 12 1/2 inches (50.17 × 31.75 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-74/35
SignedSigned on sheet recto, below the image at lower left, in graphite pencil: "Jozef Israëls"
Oval blind embossment stamp on sheet recto, immediately over the artist's signature.
On View
Not on viewCollections
Gallery LabelJozef Israëls earned an international reputation for his views of life in Dutch fishing and peasant communities. Images of anglers were his specialty from the 1850s onwards, though it was only in the 1880s that his emphasis shifted from narrative scenes of their lives to those emphasizing the physical demands of their work. Inspired by Jean-François Millet’s epic treatments of rural labor, seen nearby, Israëls transforms this everyday scene of a fisherman at work into an archetypal figure of strength and solitude.
With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by May 1932;
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
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