Jozef Israels, Farmer's Wife. 2nd half of the 19th century. Jozef Israels1824 Groningen - 1911 The Hague Charcoal drawing on drawing paper. Signed on the left side "Jozef Israels". Mounted in a simple passe-partout between two glass plates and framed in a narrow profiled brown wooden moulding with a golden sight-strip. Paper a little bit browned, light margins, some creases and traces of handling as well as a little bit smudge-marked due to the technique. Some tears (up to 3,5 cm) in margins, backed with adhesive tape on verso. O.Mi. a small missing part (ca. 8 x 5 mm). Verso with paper and adhesive residues of an earlier mounting. Dimensions: 49 x 4,5 cm, BA. 46,5 x 33 cm, Ra. 62,5 x 47,7 cm. Jozef Israels 1824 Groningen - 1911 Den Haag Dutch painter and graphic artist, one of the most important representatives of the Hague School. Studied in Groningen, then in Amsterdam under Jan Adam Kruseman and Johan Willem Pieneman. Until 1871 he worked in Amsterdam, afterwards mainly in The Hague. 1845 - 1847 he stayed in Paris, where he learned to paint romantic history pictures under Édouard Picot. Through acquaintance with Louis Gallait and Ary Scheffer Israëls also came to Romanticism. During this period he was also influenced by Horace Vernet and Paul Delaroche, and became acquainted with Johan Barthold Jongkind and the Barbizon painters. After that he mainly painted scenes of simple people in the Netherlands, especially fishermen from Zandvoort and Katwijk. Friendship with Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1876 initiation of the Hollandse Teekenmaatschappij (Dutch Drawing Society). 1902 admission as foreign member to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. 1905 his publication on Rembrandt appeared.