Mother Feeding her Baby (The Cottage Madonna), ca.1900

  • Josef Israëls, Dutch, 1824-1911

Black chalk on artist's illustration board

  • Sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 inches (39.4 × 27.9 cm)

Bequest of Nell Ford Torrey

59.118

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, lower left after inscription: Josef Israëls [underlined]

Inscribed, in black chalk, lower left: with my compliments | to Miss Nell Ford | Josef Israëls [underlined]

Nell Ford Torrey (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1959-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Eisler, Max. Josef Israëls. London, 1924 (pl. XVI). Bulletin of the DIA (1959): p. 44. Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 86-87, no. 34 (ill.).

Josef Israëls, Mother Feeding her Baby (The Cottage Madonna), ca.1900, black chalk on artist's illustration board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Nell Ford Torrey, 59.118.