A woman stands in a doorway knitting, her ball of yarn trailing into the street
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A barefoot woman stands leaning on the right side of a stone doorway in front of what seems to be a cobblestone street. She wears a white bonnet, and layers of earth-tone clothing. Her skirts are pinned up to reveal the bottom of a blue petticoat. A basket and netting hang on the right side of the doorway. She holds a piece of white knitting, as if she is looking up from her work to address the viewer. The yarn trails into the street where the small ball of yarn sits on the cobblestones.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.280
People
Jozef Israëls, Dutch (Groningen, The Netherlands 1824 - 1911 The Hague, The Netherlands)
Title
Ida, the Fisherman's Daughter
Other Titles
Former Title: The Fisherman's Daughter
Alternate Title: The Knitting Girl
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1858-1865
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298201

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper, mounted to secondary support of off-white wove paper
Dimensions
41.4 x 28.4 cm (16 5/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l., dark brown watercolor: Jozef Israels
  • (not assigned): recto, top right, graphite: [probably matter/framer's mark]
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 2363 [may be framer's note]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Scott & Fowles, New York], sold; through Martin Birnbaum for Grenville L. Winthrop, 6 August 6, 1924, bequest, to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943

NOTE: Our work is possibly the watercolor sold in the J. Weyerman auction, Amsterdam (De Brakke Grond), 30 November 1886, no. 40, "La Jeune Tricoteuse" (Young knitting girl), 41 x 31 cm. (Our work is 41.4 x 28.4 cm).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.280
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ronald de Leeuw, John Sillevis, and Charles Dumas, The Hague School: Dutch Masters of the 19th Century, exh. cat., Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, 1983), under cat. no. 31
  • Dieuwertje Dekkers, "Jozef Israëls: Een Succesvol Schilder van het Vissersgenre" (1994), Primavera Pers, p. C215(?) [possibly the Fogg watercolor is the work sold in Weyerman auction at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, 1886 (41 x 31 cm).]
  • Dieuwertje Dekkers and Martha Kloosterboer, Jozef Israëls 1824-1911, exh. cat., Waanders Uitgevers (Groningen, 1999), p. 143, under no. 12(?) [possibly the Fogg watercolor is the work sold in Weyerman auction at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, 1886 (41 x 31 cm).]

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/31/2022

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