Shop Window

• A Shop Window
• Shop Window

A Shop Window

SK-A-3592

signature: ‘Isaac Israels’

A couple look at children’s apparel in the illuminated shop window of the clothing store Bahlmann & Co. on the Nieuwendijk in Amsterdam. The little dresses are neatly arranged by colour, creating diagonal strokes of red, light blue and white. Nocturnally lit shop windows, made possible by the introduction of electric light, were new at the end of the 19th century. This made the city safer as well as livelier at night.

Anoniem, 'Licht komt van binnen, licht komt van buiten', Rijksmuseum kunst-krant. Informatie over verzameling en tentoonstellingen van het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 7 (1981) maart, p. 1-4.

painter: Isaac Israels (mentioned on object), Amsterdam

1894

olieverf op doek

height 59 cm x width 64 cm

Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser Bequest, Montreux

bequest 1944

Public domain

…; on loan from Jean Charles Joseph Drucker (1862-1944, Montreux) and Maria Lydia Drucker-Fraser (1886-1944, Montreux), with 70 other paintings, to the museum, 1919;{Note RMA.} by whom bequeathed, with 71 other paintings, to the museum, 1944

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Anoniem, 'Licht komt van binnen, licht komt van buiten', Rijksmuseum kunst-krant. Informatie over verzameling en tentoonstellingen van het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 7 (1981) maart, p. 1-4.

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