Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819–1891)
La Seine près de Rouen
signed and dated 'Jongkind 1865' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 28 ¾ in. (54 x 73 cm)
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819–1891)
La Seine près de Rouen
signed and dated 'Jongkind 1865' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 28 ¾ in. (54 x 73 cm)
with Durand Ruel, Paris. George A. Hearn (1835-1913), New York. By whom gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1906.
'George A. Hearn Dies of Pleurisy,' The New York Times, 2 Dec. 1913, pp. 1, 4, as Sunset on the Scheldt. C. Sterling and M. M. Salinger, French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume 2, XIX Century, New York, 1966, p. 133, illustrated, as Sunset on the Scheldt. V. Hefting, Jongkind: sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, Paris, 1975, p. 164, no. 334, illustrated, as Canal près de Rouen, with slightly incorrect dimensions, and erroneously listed as being in a private collection. J. Pope-Hennessy, 'Roger Fry and The Metropolitan Museum of Art,' Oxford, China, and Italy: Writings in Honour of Sir Harold Acton on his Eightieth Birthday, London, 1984, p. 235, as Sunset on the Scheldt. A. Stein et al., Jongkind: Catalogue critique de l'œuvre. Peintures I, Paris, 2003, p. 174, no. 372, illustrated. D. Bakhuÿs, A City for Impressionism: Monet, Pissarro, and Gauguin in Rouen, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Paris, 2010, p. 196.
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