Paneel op twee zijden beschilderd met op de voorkant een landschap door Jozef Israëls en op de achterkant drie vrouwen op het strand door Isaac Israels

This double-sided panel attributed to Isaac Israëls — with a landscape by his father Jozef Israëls on one side and three women on the beach by Isaac on the other — is a fascinating document of the relationship between two generations of Dutch painters, a father-and-son collaboration on opposite sides of the same support. Jozef Israëls was the elder statesman of the Hague School, while his son Isaac was associated with the more Impressionist-influenced Amsterdam Impressionism of the Eighties generation. The double-sided work physically embodies the generational dialogue between Dutch realist tradition and French-influenced modernism that defined Dutch painting's development in the late nineteenth century. The Dordrechts Museum preserves this unusual dual work.

The two sides of the panel represent the distinct generational styles: Jozef's landscape in the tonal, restrained manner of the Hague School, and Isaac's beach women in the looser, more chromatic brushwork of Amsterdam Impressionism. The contrast, visible by turning the panel, encapsulates a major shift in Dutch painting across the father-son generation.