Property from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Schmit
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Le pont de l’Estacade
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Johan Barthold Jongkind
Lattrop 1819 - 1891 Saint-Égrève
Le pont de l’Estacade
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left Jongkind 1854.
43,2 x 60,3 cm ; 17 by 23¾ in.
We are grateful to Brame & Lorenceau for having confirmed the authenticity of the work after first-hand inspection. A certificate will be delivered to the buyer.
Collection of Count Armand Doria, Paris;
His sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4-5 May 1899, lot 162;
With Galerie Schmit, Paris;
Private collection.
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres XIXe-XXè - Œuvres majeures, 1984, no. 15;
Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d'Automne : aux sources de l'Impressionnisme, October-November 1985, no. 63;
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres français XIXe-XXè siècles, 1987, no. 29;
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres français XIXe-XXè siècles, 1990, no. 37;
Paris, Hôtel de Ville, Paris sous le ciel de la peinture, 2000.
E. Moreau-Nélaton, Jongkind. Raconté par lui-même, Paris 1918, fig. 27 (as dated 1852);
P. Colin, Johan-Barthold Jongkind, Paris 1931, pl. 1 repr.;
C. Gottlieb, 'Deux tableaux de Jongkind achetés par l'Etat', in La Revue du Louvre, Paris 1968, no. 2, p. 77, fig. 5;
V. Hefting, Jongkind, sa vie, son œuvre, son époque, Neuchâtel 1975, p. 89, no. 104 repr. (as dated 1852);
M. Gaillard, Paris au XIXe siècle, Marseille 1991, pp. 170-171 repr.;
A. Stein, S. Brame, F. Lorenceau, J. Sinizergues, Jongkind, Catalogue critique de l'œuvre, Paris 2003, p. 101, no. 128, repr.
The Pont de l’Estacade, built for the first time in 1818 as a pedestrian bridge, was a popular subject with artists: rebuilt several times, it was one of the symbols of Paris in the nineteenth century and an example of the proliferation of modern constructions in the capital.
For the Dutch artist Jongkind, who had settled in France in 1846, Paris only became one of his preferred subjects two years later. It was especially between 1849 and 1855 that he became fond of depicting the quays on the Seine and views of Paris around the river, producing many drawings, watercolours and oil paintings.
The present painting is based on a composition that he first drew in pencil, dated 1852 (now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, inv. 2020.110). Although completed two years later, our painting remains faithful to this composition, with only a few variations (the small boat in the foreground, for instance, is an addition). Jongkind painted a first version of The Pont de l’Estacade in oil, which was shown at the 1853 Salon de 1853 and immediately bought by the French State; it still forms part of the public collections and is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Angers (inv. 2013.22.56).
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