Johan Barthold Jongkind artwork • painting • previously for sale The harbour of Rotterdam by night
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André (Frankrijk)
1819-1891
The harbour of Rotterdam by night
oil on canvas 43.1 x 32.4 cm, signed l.l. and dated '68
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: kunsthandel Durand-Ruel, Parijs; kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, 1939, inv.nr. 89x; veiling Galerie Charpentier, Parijs, 4 april 1957, lotnr. 51 (met afb.); part. bezit België.
Literature: tent.cat. Parijs, Galerie Georges Petit, 'Exposition J.B. Jongkind', 1921, cat.nr. 24; tent.cat. Amsterdam, kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., 'Maîtres français et hollandais du XIXe siècle', 1939, cat.nr. 18; tent.cat. Amsterdam, kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., 'Exposition de peinture française', 1940, cat.nr. 23; A. Stein, S. Brame, F. Lorenceau, J. Sinizergues, 'Catalogue critique de l’Oeuvre de Jongkind, Volume 1: Peintures', Parijs 2003, pag. 207, cat.nr. 485 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Parijs, Galerie Georges Petit, 'Exposition J.B. Jongkind', 4-23 nov. 1921; Amsterdam, kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., 'Maîtres français et hollandais du XIXe siècle', 1939; Amsterdam, kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., 'Exposition de peinture française', 1940.
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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