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Shop Window
Also titled Etalage
Isaac Israels (Amsterdam, 1865–1934)
1894
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 59 cm x width 64 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser Bequest, Montreux
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
A couple look at children’s apparel in the illuminated shop window of the clothing store Bahlmann & Co. on the Nieuwendijk in Amsterdam. The little dresses are neatly arranged by colour, creating diagonal strokes of red, light blue and white. Nocturnally lit shop windows, made possible by the introduction of electric light, were new at the end of the 19th century. This made the city safer as well as livelier at night.
