Full Record |
| Title |
The Frugal Meal |
| Alternative Title |
Schoenmakersfamilie aan het middagmaal |
| Original Translation |
Intérieur de village ; Karig maal |
| Collection |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Artist |
Israëls, Jozef (Dutch artist, 1824-1911) |
| Date Earliest |
possibly about 1875 |
| Date Latest |
1876 |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
The Frugal Meal was originally entitled Intérieur de village. Under this title it was listed in the sales records of the Hague branch of Goupil art-dealers and exhibited for the first time at the 1876 Paris Salon. The critics praised Israëls' choice of this simple topic. One of them was especially impressed by the charming way in which the painter depicted the children; separated from their parents and absorbed in their own world. The next year, when the painting was exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, it carried the present title. In the Netherlands however, the painting was known as Schoenmakersfamilie aan het middagmaal, literally 'the cobbler's family at the midday meal'. This title was presumable assigned by the artist himself. The reference to a cobbler's family makes it likely that the interior depicted is a cottage in the Brabant village of Dongen. This village inspired Israëls' several versions of an artisan's family having dinner. |
| Current Accession Number |
737 |
| Inscription |
front ll 'J Israels' |
| Subject |
interior; figure; animal (chicken) |
| Measurements |
88.9 x 138.7 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Bequeathed by the sons of James Reid 1896. |
| Provenance |
Goupil & Cie., The Hague, November 1876; from whom bought by Buffa art dealers, Amsterdam, for fl.9.000 (oil painting stock book no.11,648); Buffa, L ondon, for £950, from whom bought by art-dealers Pilgeram & Lefèvre, London; John McGavin, Glasgow by 1878; James Reid, Glasgow, by 1881. |
| Principal Exhibitions |
Salon, Paris, 1876, cat. no. 1073, as Intérieur de village / Karig maal; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1877, cat. no. 266, as The Frugal Meal; Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, 1878, cat. no. 66; Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1878, cat. no. 41c, as Le dîner des savetiers / Karig maal; Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1879, cat. no. 42, as Preparing for Dinner / Karig maal; International Exhibition, Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1888, cat. no. 638, as The Frugal Meal; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1900, cat. no. 179, as The Frugal Meal; Victoria Art Galleries, Dundee, 1912, cat. no. 265; Smith Institute, Stirling, 1913; Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, 1915; Narrative Paintings, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1940, cat. no. 21; Ben Uri Gallery, London, 1949, cat. no. 3; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1977, cat. no. 62; Glasgow 1900. Art and Design, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1992 - 1993, cat. no. 4; Jozef Israëls. Meester van het Sentiment, Groninger Museum, Groningen, 1999 - 2000, cat. no. 32. |
| Publications |
Gram, J., ‘Jozef Israëls', Onze schilders in Pulchri Studio, Rotterdam, 1880, p. 40; Vosmaer, C., ‘Jozef Israëls', Onze Hedendaagse schilders, The Hague, 1881-85, p. 5; L'Art, vol. 5, 1876, p. 154, vol. 6, 1876, p. 76 (a drawing by Israëls after no. 737 ill. p. 77); Chesnau, E., ‘Jozef Israëls', in Dumas, F. (ed.), Illustrated Biographies of Modern Artists, London and Paris, 1882, p. 129; Zilcken, Ph., ‘Jozef Israëls', in Grands Peintres Français et Etrangers... , Paris, 1884-86, two volumes, vol. I, p. 28, ill. p. 25); Vosmaer, C., Moderne Kunst in Nederland. Etsen van P.J. Arendsen, Tekst van J.F. van Someren, met inleidend Woord van Mr. C.Vosmaer, Amsterdam, 1884-87; Vereeniging tot Bevordering van Beeldende Kunsten, Haarlem, 1894, p. unknown; Kunstkroniek, 1886, illus. p. 84; Cook, C., 'Dutch Art', in Art and Artists of our Time, New York, 1888, vol. 2, p. 318, ill. p. 320; Henley, W. E., A Century of Artists: A Memorial of the Loan Collection of Painting and Sculpture. International Exhibition Glasgow 1888 with Historical and Bibliographical Notes by William Ernest Henley and Descriptions of the Pictures by Robert Walker, Glasgow, 1889, p. 90; Walker, R., 'Private Picture Collections in Glasgow and West of Scotland: Mr James Reid's Collection', The Magazine of Art, vol. 17, 1894, p. 156, illus. p. 153; Veth, J., Gedenkboek. Keuzetentoonstelling van Hollandsche Schilderkunst uit de Jaren 1860-1892 gehouden te Amsterdam in Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, 1895, p. 21; Pinnington, E., G. P. Chalmers, 1896, pp. 267, 274; Pinnington, E., The Art Collection of the Corporation of Glasgow, Glasgow, 1898, p. 22, ill. as frontispiece; Bell, A., 'Jozef Israëls', Representative Painters of the 19th Century, London and New York, 1899, illus. facing p. 176; Haverkamp, W., Jozef Israëls, het Evangelie predikende met zijn Penseel, Nijmegen, 1899, pp. 57-59; Veth, J., 'Modern Dutch Art: the Work of Jozef Israëls', The Studio, vol. 26, 1902, pp. 246, 251; Stahl, J., 'Josef Israëls', in Martin Buber (ed.), Juedische Kuenstler, Berlin, 1903, p. 27; Zilcken, Ph., 'Jozef Israëls', Artisti Moderni series, vol. 4, Bergamo, 1910, p. 59; Paton, J., Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1904, cat. no. 500, p. 94; Paton, J., Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1906, cat. no. 500, p. 96; Paton, J., The Fine Art Collection of Glasgow, Glasgow, 1906, b/w ill. XLV; Paton, J., Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures and Sculpture in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1908, cat. no. 500, p. 106, b/w. ill on facing p.; Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1911, cat. no. 500, p. 110; Phythian, J. E., Israëls, 1912, ill. facing p. 20; Eisler, M., Jozef Israëls, (special spring issue of The Studio), London, 1924, fig. 33; Harrower, I. M., ‘Josef Israëls and his Aberdeen Friend', Aberdeen University Review vol. 14, 1927, p. 115; Brotchie, T. C. F., ‘Hours in The Glasgow Art Galleries', Picture Galleries Series, London, 1927, p. 127, ill. facing p. 126; Van Gelder, H. E., ‘Israëls', Palet Serie, p. 38, illus. p. 3; Catalogue, Descriptive and Historical, of the Pictures in the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums, Glasgow, 1935, no. 737, p. 158; Miles, H., Dutch and Flemish, Netherlandish and German Paintings, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1961, vol.1, p. 73, vol. 2, ill. p. 100; Boime, A., ‘A Source for Van Gogh's Potato Eaters', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, April 1966, pp. 249-53, illus. p. 251; Walker, J. A., ‘Van Gogh as a Peasant Painter', Van Gogh Studies, London, 1981, p. 54, pl. 69; De Kunst van het Moederschap. Leven en Werk van Nederlandse Vrouwen in de 19e Eeuw Haarlem, 1981-82, ill. 23; Moggett, Ch., ‘Vincent van Gogh and The Hague School', in De Leeuw, R., Sillevis, J., & Dumas C. (ed), The Hague School: Dutch Masters of the 19th Century, London, 1983, p. 142, ill.; Vincent van Gogh. Lebensbilder, Lebenszeichen, Berlin, 1989, p. 231, ill.; De Haagse School: De Collectie van het Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 1988, pp. 138-41 with ill.; Weiss-Blok, R., ‘Jewish Elements in Jozef Israël's Art', Dutch Jewish History, vol. 2, Jerusalem, 1989, p. 199; Brouwer, J. W., ‘De Aardappeleters en de literaire Bronnen', Toonbeeld, vol. 1, no. 4, 1990, p. 6; Cumming, E., & McCormick, A. (eds..), Glasgow 1900. Art and Design, Zwolle/Amsterdam, 1992, p. 10, ill., cat. no. 4, ill.; Schwartz, A. S., To Work Willingly With Their Hands: The Theme of Sewing in the Oeuvre of Jozef Israëls, unpublished dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 1993, fig. 7; Dekkers, D., Jozef Israëls: Een succesvol Schilder van het Vissersgenre, unpublished dissertation, University of Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 106, 345; Dekkers, D. (ed.), Jozef Israëls 1824-1911, Zwolle, 1999, cat. no. 32, pp. 191-93, etching ill. p. 82; Loos, W. (ed.), Aquarellen van de Haagse School: De Collectie Drucker-Fraser, Zwolle, 2002, pp. 94-95, ill.; Hamilton, V. (ed.), Millet to Matisse: Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century French Painting from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, New Haven/London/Glasgow, 2002, p. 32 ill. |
| Rights Owner |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author |
Suzanne Veldink |
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