Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819–1891)
La Seine près de Rouen
Details
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)
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)
Provenance
with Durand Ruel, Paris.
George A. Hearn (1835-1913), New York.
By whom gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1906.
George A. Hearn (1835-1913), New York.
By whom gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1906.
Literature
'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.
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.