Lot 307
  • 307

Johan Barthold Jongkind

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Johan Barthold Jongkind
  • ENTRÉE DE PORT, ROTTERDAM
  • signed Jongkind, dated 1871 and inscribed Rotterdam (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 21.9 by 27.3cm., 8 5/8 by 10 3/4 in.

Provenance

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12th February 1932, lot 69
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris
Acquired by the family of the present owner in Paris circa 1950
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (on loan from the above)

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Œuvres choisie du XIXème siècle, 1950
Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Pour les 30 ans de la galerie, 1966

Literature

Adolphe Stein, Sylvie Brame, François Lorenceau & Janine Sinizergues, Jongkind, Catalogue critique de l'œuvre: Peintures, Paris, 2003, vol. I, no. 629, illustrated p. 248

Condition

The canvas is not lined. There is a nailhead-sized spot of retouching to the left corner of the upper edge and a pinhead-sized spot of paint loss towards the upper right corner with associated minor retouching, all visible under UV light. Apart from light stretcher marks running vertically down the right and left edges and some minor craquelure to the lower left corner, this work is in good condition.
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