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The Young Mother

Josef Israëls Dutch, 1824-1911
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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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Published References

"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.

The Young Mother
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