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

L'Escaut près d'Anvers

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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.
Provenance
(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.
Literature
Victorine Hefting, Jongkind, sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, Paris, 1975, p. 190, no. 422, as: Marine, Anvers.
Adolphe Stein, Jongkind, Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre Peintures, I, Paris, 2003, p. 202, no. 466, as: L'Escaut près d'Anvers.
John Sillevis (a.o.), Johan Barthold Jongkind, Zwolle, 2003, p. 62, no. 54, as: De haven van Antwerpen.
Jan Jaap Heij, Hollands Impressionisme, Bussum, 2013, pp. 16-17.
Exhibited
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Johan Barthold Jongkind 1819-1891, 11 October 2003-19 September 2004, no. 116.

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Lot Essay

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.

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