Focus on Dreams (painting) and analyze the Reception.
In 1859 writing for Gazette des Beaux-Arts art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger said the painting, "stood above all" and he was impressed by the realism in the painting. In 2015 the Dordrechts Museum in Dordrecht had an exhibit entitled Holland at its best – Spring of the Hague School. 'Dreams' by Jozef Israels, was called one of the "icons of the exhibition.
Dordrecht Gazette des Beaux-Arts Hague School Dordrechts Museum Théophile Thoré-Bürger