When One Grows Old is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch artist Jozef Israëls, from 1883.

[2] In Dutch, the painting is known as Als men oud wordt.

[3] The painting is of an old peasant woman who is warming herself by a fireplace.

[2] The old woman is hunched over with her back bent and her hands stretched out toward the fireplace.

[4] In the book Jozef Israëls author John Ernest Phythian states that the painting sums up Israëls techniques as a painter.