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Jozef Israëls
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- Jozef Israëls
- Son of the Ancient People (A Seated Man)
- signed Jozef Israels (lower left); inscribed Hermann Struck / Amsterdam 16.8.1906 (in another hand, lower center)
- pencil on paper
- 31 by 24 1/4 in.
- 78.7 by 61.6 cm
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner in 1969
Literature
Dr. Dieuwertje Dekkers, Jozef Israëls 1824-1911, Master of sentiment, (exhibition catalogue), Zwolle, 1999., p. 226
Catalogue Note
Hermann Struck (1876-1944) was a German-born etcher. In 1907, he made an etching after Israëls' 1889 masterwork Een Zoon uit het Oude Volk (oil on canvas, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, inv. no. A 2247), likely using the present pencil drawing as a guide.