The Good Samaritan
1905 · Charcoal and red chalk heightened with white chalk, with traces of purple pastel, over graphite on grayish-green wove paper
Sheet: 47.3 × 65.6 cm (18 5/8 × 25 7/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Jozef Israels
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Drawings from the Kr�ller-M�ller National Museum, Otterlo
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973
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Jozef Israels painted peasant and working-class life in a realist idiom distinguished by precise attention to light and texture. A central figure of the Hague School, he sustained a decades-long engagement with rural Dutch interiors and village communities, rendering their domestic spaces and labor with unflinching observation. His work bridges 19th-century Dutch genre painting and the emergence of modern social realism, establishing a visual vocabulary that would influence northern European painting into the 20th century.
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