Jean-Barthold Jongkind
"Bateaux sur le Canal de Dordrecht"
Signed Jongkind and dated 1870. Canvas 33 x 47 cm.
Relined canvas. Craquelures, some of which has been retouched/filled in. Scattered retouches. Under blacklight there are traces of glue beteween the old and new canvas. Varnish gone slightly yellow/green (visible under blacklight).
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 27 Feb 1957, lot 86 (illustrated); Philips, London, 29 June 1987, lot 101 (illustrated in colour); Sotheby's, New York, 12 Feb 1997, lot 31 (illustrated in colour); private collection (acquired at the above Sale).
Exhibitions
Marlborough Fine Art, London, "XIXth and XXth Century French Masters", 1950, no. 22; Terry Engel Gallery, London, "Paysages de France", 1963, no. 27.
Literature
Adolphe Stein, Sylvie Brame, Francois Lorenceau & Janine Sinizergues, "Jongkind. Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre. Peintures. I", 2003, listed and illustrated p. 237, no. 593.