Johan Barthold Jongkind artwork • painting • for sale Moored ships in the port of Rotterdam
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André (Frankrijk)
1819-1891
Moored ships in the port of Rotterdam
oil on canvas 42.0 x 56.1 cm, signed l.r. twice and dated 1857
This painting is for sale.
price range: € 100.000 or above
Provenance: part. coll. Frankrijk.
Literature: Victorine Hefting, 'Jongkind, sa vie, son œuvre, son époque', Parijs 1975, pag. 110, cat.nr. 170 (met afb, als 'Bateaux à quai, Rotterdam'; A. Stein, S. Brame, F. Lorenceau, J. Sinizergues, 'Catalogue critique de l’Oeuvre de Jongkind, Volume 1: Peintures', Parijs 2003, pag. 120, cat.nr. 196 (met afb., als 'Bateaux dans le port de Rotterdam).
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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