Johan Barthold Jongkind artwork • painting • for sale A view on the Weezenbrug and Vlasmarkt, Rotterdam
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André (Frankrijk)
1819-1891
A view on the Weezenbrug and Vlasmarkt, Rotterdam
oil on panel 37.5 x 22.3 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1856
This painting is for sale.
Provenance: Albert Caressa, Parijs; kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, inv.nr. S 3643; veiling Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 13 dec. 1966, lotnr. 26 (met afb.); veiling Christie's, Londen, 4 juli 1969, lotnr. 157 (met afb.); part. coll. Groot-Brittannië.
Literature: tent.cat. Parijs, Galerie Georges Petit, 'J.B. Jongkind', 1921, cat.nr. 20; tent.cat. Londen, Kaplan Gallery, 'Recent acquisitions. French Impressionist Paintings', 1967, cat.nr. 8; tent.cat. Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 1971, cat.nr. 5 (met afb.); V. Hefting, 'Jongkind: sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque', Parijs 1975, pag. 104, cat.nr. 151 (met afb., als ‘Haagse Veer à Rotterdam, passage de La Haye’); A. Stein, S. Brame, F. Lorenceau, J. Sinizergues, 'Catalogue critique de l’Oeuvre de Jongkind, Volume 1: Peintures', Parijs 2003, pag. 111, cat.nr. 164 (met afb., als ''Haagse Veer' (passage de La Haye), Rotterdam').
Exhibited: Parijs, Galerie Georges Petit, 'J.B. Jongkind', 4-23 nov. 1921; Londen, Kaplan Gallery, 'Recent acquisitions. French Impressionist Paintings', 12 april-27 mei 1967; Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 7 april-23 mei 1971.
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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