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Entrance to the Port of Honfleur

Johan Barthold Jongkind · 1863–64

Provenance

Ownership history

Jean Baptiste Théophile, also known as Théophile Bascle (died 1882); his estate sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, April 12-14, 1883, lot 65 [according to Hebert sale catalogue]. Madame Hebert, Paris; her estate sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 15, 1926, lot 45 (ill.), to Dru [according to Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot]. Van Gelder, Paris, by 1930 to at least 1932 [lent to The Hague and Amsterdam exh.; see also Roger-Marx 1932]. John Dorus Van Itallie, New Jersey [information provided by Lock Galleries]. Lock Galleries, New York; sold to the Art Institute, 1968.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

The Hague, Pulchri Studios and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tentoonstelling Jongkind (1819-1891), March-April, 1930, cat. 23.
New York, Carroll Carstairs Galleries, Johan-Barthold Jongkind: Painting and Watercolors, April 20-May 13, 1939, cat. 6.
Tokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition, Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 1, 1985, cat. 15; traveled to Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.
Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 11 (ill.).

Literature

Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot 32, no. 32 (March 16, 1926).
Claude Roger-Marx, Jongkind (Paris, 1932), pl. 6
George Besson, Johan-Barthold Jongkind (1940-9?), pl. 16.
Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (New York, 1980), p. 174.
Richard R. Brettel, French Salon Artists, 1800–1900 (Chicago, 1987), p. 53.
The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 11, pp. 42-43 (ill.).

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