Four men and a woman gathered around a coffee table with bottle (a man with his foot on the table).

Drawing, charcoal, 47,3 x 60 cm, light brown laid paper, signed in charcoal lower right (frayed edges, puncture marks on corners, two holes: in the costume of a man left and in the signature, 3 cm tear upwards right).

The Dutch painter Israëls (1865-1934) is associated with the Amsterdam Impressionist movement. A lifelong friend of the painters George Hendrik Breitner and Willem de Zwart, he often spent his summers with his father at the Dutch seaside with guests such as Édouard Manet or Max Liebermann. In 1904, he moved to Paris and painted the Parisian way of life as well as circus subjects and fashion houses. At the outbreak of the WW1, he lived in London where he painted people riding horses and then returned to Holland where he worked as a portrait painter: Mata Hari, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (Van Gogh's sister-in-law), the physician Aletta Jacobs, etc. He travelled around the world while continuing to paint.