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JOHAN BARTHOLD JONGKIND (LATROP 1819-1891 GRENOBLE)
Démolition de la rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Paris
signé et daté 'Jongkind/1873' (en bas à droite); signé et inscrit 'démolition de la rue des Francs-Bourgeois St.Marcel...Mouftard/Paris 17 avril 1868/actuellement boulevard du Port-Royal Jongkind' (sur le châssis)
Huile sur toile
34 x 46,7 cm. (13 3/8 x 18 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Vente L. Bernard, Hôtel Drouot Paris, 11 mai 1901, lot 38, illustré.
Madame Esnault-Pelterie, Paris.
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 11 juin 1958, lot 266, pl. XCVI.
Acquis par le père de l'actuel propriétaire vers 1965.
Literature
V. Hefting, Jongkind, sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, Paris, 1975, no. 599, illustré p. 242.
A. Stein, S. Brame, F. Lorenceau & J. Sinizergues, Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre de Jongkind, Paris, 2003, no. 701, illustré p. 268.
J. Sillevis, J. Foucart e.a., Jongkind 1819-1891, catalogue de l'exposition, La Haye/Cologne/Paris 2003-2004, p. 76.
R.S. Blok, Jongkind intime. Dessins, estampes et lettres de Jongkind dans la Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, 2004, p. 55.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Jongkind, 1966, no. 48, illustré.
Special notice
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Further details
BUILDING SITE ON THE RUE DE FRANCS-BOURGEOIS, OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AND DATED BY JOHAN BARTHOLD JONGKIND
The first visit of Jongkind to Paris was in 1846. He was taken by everyday life and modern Paris. Emile Zola, who visited Jongkind in his Parisian studio in 1872, confirms this: "this profound love of modern Paris, I found it in Jongkind, I do not dare say with what joy. He understood that Paris remains picturesque in its debris" (see Sillevis, op.cit., p. 80). The demolition of houses on the street of the Francs Bourgeois is one of these modern and realistic motifs which interested the painter. We can follow his way of working thanks to a series of works on the motif: he painted a watercolor in his album of sketches on the day of April 17, 1868 (see fig 1; V. Hefting, op.cit., no. 475, p. 205), he then depicted the scene in a painting dated two days later (see fig. 2; V. Hefting, op.cit., no. 469, p. 204). Five years after, he reutilized the motif in the actual painting, finishing with an etching two years later, published in l'Illustration nouvelle (fig. 3; see V. Hefting, op.cit., no. 665, p. 262).