Artist
Jozef Israels
Jozef Israels is a Realism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Dutch artist Jozef Israels painted quiet scenes of daily life soaked in quiet feeling. His watercolor “The Housewife” shows a woman bent over her work table, light catching the edge of her apron and the rim of a bowl. Another piece, “Worn Out,” lingers on an old man’s hands, veins like roots on pale paper. Israels belonged to no single movement, yet his gentle realism feels like a held breath between eras. Tap “The Housewife” to step into a Dutch kitchen from the 1800s.
Works by Jozef Israels
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.