Details
JOHAN BARTHOLD JONGKIND (DUTCH, 1819–1891)
Bateaux devant le Pont-Neuf, Paris
signed and dated 'Jongkind/1854.' (lower left)
oil on canvas, unframed
1778 x 2834 in. (45.2 x 73 cm.)
Provenance
Eugène Godot, Paris.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 December 1855, lot 40, as Le Pont-Neuf.
Alexander Petrovich Basilevsky (1829–c.1885), Paris, acquired at the above sale.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 March 1868, lot 27, as Une vue du Pont-Neuf, prise de la berge.
Marquis Alfred du Lau d’Allemans (1833-1919), Paris.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 May 1869, lot 15, as Le Pont-Neuf en 1854.
Léon Gauchez (1825-1907), Paris, acquired at the above sale.
Mr. Hurault.
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 February 1874, lot 33, as Le Pont-Neuf.
Louise Auban-Moët (1839-1917), Épernay and Paris.
with Goupil et Cie., Paris, acquired directly from the above, 16 June 1899.
René Decamps-Scrive (1853-1924), Lille, Hauts-de-France, acquired directly from the above, 3 March 1900.
Marquis Edgar de Rocheçouste (1944-1929), Paris, by 1921, until 1929.
with E. J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, acquired directly from the above, by April 1929.
Gordon C. Edwards (1866–1946), Ottawa, acquired directly from the above, 1929.
with Kennedy Galleries, New York.
Mary Millicent Abigail Rogers (1902-1953), Countess von Salm-Hoogstraeten, New York.
Count Peter A. Salm (1925-1994), New York, her son, and by descent to his widow.
Literature
P. Burty, 'La Collection du Lau,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1 May 1869, p. 476, as Pont-Neuf.
'Collection de M. Le mis du Lau,' La Presse, Paris, 20 April 1869, n.p., as Vue du Pont-Neuf en 1854.
'Collection de M. Le mis du Lau,' La France, Paris, 23 April 1869, p. 3, as Vue du Pont-Neuf en 1854.
Journal des amateurs d'objets d'art et de curiosité, Paris, January-February 1870, p. 22, no. 15, as Le Pont-Neuf en 1854.
M. F. Hennus, J. B. Jongkind, Amsterdam, circa 1940s, p. 13, illustrated, as De Pont Neuf te Parijs.
V. Hefting, Jongkind, sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, Paris, 1975, p. 98, no. 130, illustrated, with incorrect dimensions.
M. Schulman, Frédéric Bazille 1841-1870, catalogue raisonné. Peintures - Dessins, pastels, aquarelles: sa vie, son œuvre, sa correspondance, Paris, 1995, p. 373, letter 238, as Le Pont-Neuf en 1854.
A. Stein, S. Brame, F. Lorenceau, and J. Sinizergues, Jongkind, Catalogue critique de l'œuvre, Peintures, Paris, 2003, vol. I, p. 101, no. 129, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Exposition de tableaux par J.-B. Jongkind, 4-23 November 1921, no. 58, as Le Vieux Pont-Neuf à Paris.
Amsterdam, E. J. van Wisselingh & Co., Exposition de peinture française, école dix neuvième siècle, 10 April-8 May 1929, no. 34, illustrated, as Le Pont-Neuf a Paris.
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