Live Auction 3060The Hofland Collection
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André)
Lot 66

Johan Barthold Jongkind (Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André)

L'Escaut près d'Anvers

Closed7 October 2014

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Johan Barthold Jongkind (Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André)
L'Escaut près d'Anvers
signed and dated 'Jongkind 1867' (lower right)
oil on canvas
33.5 x 43.5 cm.
Painted in 1867.

(possibly) Acquired directly from the artist by Mrs. Joséphine Fesser-Borrhée (1819-1891), Honfleur, thence by descent; Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1976, lot 32.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Koller, Zürich, 3 June 1983, lot 5122.
with Kunsthandel Ivo Bouwman, The Hague, by 1985, where acquired by the family of the present owners.

Specialist note

Mrs. Joséphine Fesser-Borrhée was an art teacher by profession who met Johan Barthold Jongkind in 1860. Besides being his sole pupil, she also was a highly devoted friend to the artist. She took care of him until his death in 1891, shortly before she passed away the same year.