Johan Barthold Jongkind artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Along the river
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André (Frankrijk)
1819-1891
Along the river
watercolour on paper 28.2 x 41.2 cm, signed l.l. with artist's stamp and painted in 1867
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Ch. Viguier; veiling Galerie Georges Petit, Parijs, 'Vente Ch. Viguier', 27 mei 1920, lotnr. 85 (met afb.), daar gekocht door de familie van de vorige eigenaar (part. bezit Groot-Brittannië).
Literature: Victorine Hefting, 'Jongkind: sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque', Parijs 1975, pag. 195, cat.nr. 440 (met afb. maar verkeerde maten).
Exhibited: Parijs, Galerie L. & P. Rosenberg fils, [titel en datum onbekend], nr. 30.
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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