About the Artwork
The Young Mother
19th or 20th century
Josef Israëls
1824-1911
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 16 1/4 × 24 1/2 inches (41.3 × 62.2 cm) Framed: 29 1/4 × 37 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (74.3 × 95.6 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Charles Willis Ward
10.12
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, lower right: Josef Israels
Provenance
collection of Charles Willis Ward (Detroit, Michigan, USA);1910-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Some Fine Acquisitions," Bulletin of the DMA 6, no. 3 (1912): pp. 29-33, esp. pp. 29, 30, (repr.) p. 33.
"The Museum's Donors," Bulletin of the DIA 1, no. 7 (1920): pp. 102-116, esp. 106, (repr.) p. 112.
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. DIA. Detroit, 1920, p. 96, no. 112.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 110.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 66, no. 110.
Stott, A. Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture. Woodstock, New York, 1998, p. 28, (fig. 4).
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Josef Israëls, The Young Mother, 19th or 20th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Charles Willis Ward, 10.12.
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