Reclining Female Nude

Isaac Lazarus Israëls (Dutch, 1865-1934) - Reclining Female Nude, c.1894-1900 (Oil on canvas. Kröller-Müller Museum) - - Beginning in 1886, Israëls lived in Amsterdam and registered with George Hendrik Breitner at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts. Both abandoned the academy for the more progressive circle of the Tachtigers, an influential group of writers and artists of the time. The group insisted style must reflect content and that emotionally charged subjects can only be represented by an equally intense technique.