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A Laren Scene
Also titled Larens tafereel
Jozef Israëls (Groningen (stad), 1824–1911)
1905
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 14.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser, Montreux
- 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
Laren was one of the Hague School painters’ favourite places. Israëls went there from 1874, when the village of smallholders and shepherds was still entirely authentic. Once the painters had discovered it, Laren became a genuine artists’ colony and subsequently a tourist honeypot. Israëls will have thus painted this charming scene of a girl in a door opening largely from memory.
