Lot 262
  • 262

Johan Barthold Jongkind

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Johan Barthold Jongkind
  • Haagse Veere, Rotterdam
  • Signed Jongkind and dated 1856 (lower left)
  • Oil on panel
  • 14 3/4 by 8 7/8 in.
  • 37.4 by 22.5 cm

Provenance

Collection M.G. (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, October 29, 1913, lot 7)
Albert Caressa
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 14, 1941, lot 41
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam
Sale: Sotheby's Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, December 13, 1966, lot 26
Kaplan Gallery, London
Sale: Christie's, London, July 4, 1969, lot 157
Miriam & Philip Vineberg, Montreal (acquired in 1970)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, J.B. Jongkind, 1921, no. 20 (titled Laveuses au bord d'une Riviére traversant une ville)
London, Kaplan Gallery, Recent Acquisitions, 1967, no. 8
Enschede, Netherlands, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, J.B. Jongkind, 1971, no. 5, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Scène de ville, Rotterdam (Haagse Veer))

Literature

Victorine Hefting, Jongkind, Sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, Paris, 1975, no. 151, illustrated n.p.
Adolphe Stein, Sylvie Brame, François Lorenceau & Janine Sinizergues, Jongkind, Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, Paris, 2003, no. 164, illustrated p. 164

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Panel is sound. Surface is slightly dirty. Under UV light a thin layer of varnish is somewhat difficult to read through. One pindot of inpainting is visible to the left of the chimney at right, otherwise fine.
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