Johan Barthold Jongkind

With Adolphe Stein, Paris

Unframed. The drawing was once gripped along the margins. The tip of the lower right corner is missing. At the lower right corner an erased pencil number 93. A few small tiny brown spots, scattered on the lower part of the drawing and at the centre of the left-hand side, although not very noticeable. Some surface dirt but generally in good condition. The image in the catalogue appears yellow in comparison to the original drawing.
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The importance of Jongkind to Impressionist painting is rarely acknowledged but he worked with two of the key artists of the time, Eugene Boudin and Claude Monet, who raised painting en plein air beyond the slapdash sketches of previous schools. The present work is typical of Jongkind's drawings in its spontaneity and simple representation of a view over the suburbs of Paris – an unusual subject for an artist more commonly associated with the ports of the Netherlands.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Jongkind under the sponsorship of Galerie Brame et Lorenceau.  The drawing will be included in the forthcoming critical catalogue of Jongkind's graphic work by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau and J. Sinizergues.