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Two Donkeys
Also titled Twee ezeltjes
Isaac Israels (Amsterdam, 1865–1934)
1897 - 1901
- Medium
- cardboard, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 9.4 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
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Scheveningen’s donkeys were not just entertainment for seaside visitors; Israels made grateful use of them in his paintings. He portrayed them a few times, either with children riding or a boy leading, or as here, waiting for the next ride. Their keeper lies in the foreground, on the sand. Unlike the more colourful version, left, here the cool hues of the sea and beach predominate.
