About the Artwork
Mother Feeding her Baby (The Cottage Madonna)
ca.1900
Josef Israëls
1824-1911
Dutch
Unknown
Black chalk on artist's illustration board
Sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 inches (39.4 × 27.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Nell Ford Torrey
59.118
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, lower left after inscription: Josef Israëls [underlined]
Inscribed, in black chalk, lower left: with my compliments | to Miss Nell Ford | Josef Israëls [underlined]
Provenance
Nell Ford Torrey (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1959-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Eisler, Max. Josef Israëls. London, 1924 (pl. XVI).
Bulletin of the DIA (1959): p. 44.
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 86-87, no. 34 (ill.).
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Josef Israëls, Mother Feeding her Baby (The Cottage Madonna), ca.1900, black chalk on artist's illustration board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Nell Ford Torrey, 59.118.
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