Johan Barthold Jongkind artwork • painting • previously for sale A canal near Leiden at night
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André (Frankrijk)
1819-1891
A canal near Leiden at night
oil on canvas 35.0 x 47.9 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1871
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Adolphe Beugniet, Parijs; Alexandre Blanc; veiling Galerie Georges Petit, Parijs, 'Vente de la collection de M. Alexandre Blanc', 3-4 dec. 1906, lotnr. 96 (met foutieve datering 1872); Félix Gérard, Parijs; A. Beurdeley; veiling Galerie Georges Petit, Parijs, 'Vente de la collection de M. A. Beurdeley', 6-7 mei 1920, lotnr. 87 (met foutieve datering 1872); Ed. Riché; veiling Hôtel Drouot, Parijs, 16 mei 1934, lotnr. 6 (als: 'Canal, près Leeden (Hollande)’); Robbins, New York; Reese Gallery, Atlantic City, Verenigde Staten, 1960; part. bezit New Jersey, Verenigde Staten.
Literature: tent.cat. Parijs, Galerie Georges Petit, 'J.B. Jongkind', 1921, cat.nr. 55; A. Stein, S. Brame, F. Lorenceau, J. Sinizergues, 'Catalogue critique de l’Oeuvre de Jongkind, Volume 1: Peintures', Parijs 2003, pag. 255, cat.nr. 654 (met afb. in kleur).
Exhibited: Parijs, Galerie Georges Petit, 'J.B. Jongkind', 4-23 nov. 1921.
The Dutch born Jongkind spent most of his life in France, but regularly returned to the Netherlands for inspiration. Especially to 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.
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