Alone in the World is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch artist Jozef Israëls, from c.

The painting was exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago Illinois.

The broken-hearted man, and the face of the dead woman in the dull light of the room portray isolation and death.

The image shows a man, wearing an overcoat, sitting on a chair by a bed.

The man has a stern expression and woman appears to be ill.[4] French critic Louis Edmond Duranty said of the painting, "dombre et de douleur" or shadow and pain.