Piazza del Popolo, Rome, circa 1927
Signed lower left
Watercolour on paper
39 x 49 cm.
Provenance:
Private collection, The Netherlands
Exhibited:
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Isaac Israels, Hollands Impressionist, 4 September 1999 - 9 January 2000.
Literature:
Saskia de Bodt et.al. Isaac Israels Hollands Impressionist, Schiedam 1999, p. 61. nr. 76.
Isaac Israels was born in Amsterdam in 1865, the son of the painter Jozef Israels. Early in his life, his family moved to The Hague. During his life as an artist Isaac exchanged ‘the grey' pallet of the Haagse school (the Hague school) for a more colourful and lively pallet.
He returned to Amsterdam where he was asked to join the Kring der Tachtigers (the group of Eighty). Cityscapes featuring Amsterdam and Parisian street life, fashionable ladies, the interiors of cafés and sewing workshops are amongst his most popular scenes. He is considered to be one of the most important Dutch impressionists.