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Johan Barthold Jongkind
Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André (Frankrijk)
Skaters in the vicinity of Rotterdam, oil on canvas 24,7 x 33 cm., signed l.l. and dated 1879
815266/Coll.III cv

Annotatie: op spieraam: 'Canal près de Rotterdam. (Hollande)'
Provenance: coll. Georges Petit, Parijs; veiling Galerie Georges Petit, Parijs, 'Collection Georges Petit', 4 maart 1921, lotnr. 80; coll. Labbé, Parijs; Galerie Schmit, Parijs, 1966 en 1976; part. coll. Frankrijk.
Literature: tent.cat. Den Haag, Pulchri Studio/Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 'Nederland-Frankrijk Tentoonstelling Jongkind', 1930, cat.nr. 41; tent.cat. Parijs, Galerie Schmit, 'Exposition Jongkind', 1966, cat.nr. 58 (met afb.); Victorine Hefting, 'Jongkind: sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque', Parijs 1975, pag. 278, cat.nr. 710 (met afb.); tent.cat. Parijs, Galerie Schmit, 'Jongkind', 1976, cat.nr. 37; A. Stein, S. Brame, F. Lorenceau, J. Sinizergues, 'Catalogue critique de l’Oeuvre de Jongkind, Volume 1: Peintures', Parijs 2003, pag. 301, cat.nr. 812 (met afb.).

Price band: between 50.000 and 100.000 euro

Jongkind spent most of his life in France, regularly returning to the Netherlands to draw inspiration, especially in Rotterdam, for his city and harbour views as well as his coastal and river landscapes of ships. His landscapes by moonlight were extraordinary. His spontaneous, free brushwork gave his paintings the immediacy of work by the Impressionists, yet they were all painted in his studio. His French contemporaries admired his work and generally saw him as one of the pioneers of Impressionism: Manet described him as the father of modern landscape painters.