Nº 75
Reading edition
Josef Israëls DUTCH: 1824-
A DUTCH INTERIOR
Height, 20 inches; length, 28 inches
An old Dutch vrouw, knitting in hand, is seated in a simple cottage interior near a table under a broad window, gazing with interest at a cat which is drinking milk from a shallow earthen basin on the floor. The window is partly covered by thin lace curtains, a tray with tea things stands on the table, and the bonnet of the old woman occupies the seat of a chair on the left. A flood of diffused light from the broad window enters the room, accentuates the objects here and there and fills the shadows with warm reflections.
Signed at the lower left, Josef Israëls.
Collection of A. Disbecker, New York, 1898.