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Children of the Sea
Also titled Kinderen der zee
Jozef Israëls (Groningen (stad), 1824–1911)
1872
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 48.5 cm x width 93.5 cm x height 49 cm x width 91 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.B.A.M. Westerwoudt Bequest, Haarlem
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This charming scene contains a message. The children of a fisherman, with their tattered rags and paltry toys, offer us a glimpse of their future. The eldest boy carries the weight of the family on his shoulders, and the little boat stands for the rigours of life at sea. Jozef Israëls first painted this subject in 1863. It became enormously popular and the artist subsequently repeated it often.
