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The Sand Bargeman
Also titled De zandschipper
Jozef Israëls (Groningen (stad), 1824–1911)
1887
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 62 cm x width 90 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- C.D. Reich Bequest
- 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
In 1871 Jozef Israëls moved into a modern villa on the Koninginnegracht in The Hague. From his sitting room, he could see the fishermen, sand bargemen and seaside visitors travelling by canal to and from Scheveningen. Here the sand bargeman is transport-ing sand from the levelled dunes to the new districts of The Hague. But he also personifies the difficult journey of human life. This is the central theme of Israëls’ work.
