Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891)
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Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891)

Jeune femme à l'ombrelle, Paris

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Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891)
Jeune femme à l'ombrelle, Paris
signed, dated and inscribed 'à mon ami Prouha/Jongkind 1855' (lower left)
oil on canvas
41 x 26.5 cm.
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to Mr. Pierre-Bernard Prouha (1822-1888), Paris.
with Mr. Jos Hessel, Paris.
Collection Favre-Thierrens, Paris, by 1963.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Paris, 21 June 2012, lot 133, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
Victorine Hefting, Jongkind, sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, Paris, 1975, p. 102, no. 137, as: L'ombrelle, Paris.
Adolphe Stein, Jongkind, catalogue critique de l'oeuvre, peintures, Tome I (éditions Brame et Lorenceau), Paris, 2003, p. 107, no. 51, as: Jeune femme a l'ombrelle, Paris.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, Jongkind, peintures et aquarelles, 11 May-4 June 1960, no. 3.
Honfleur, Le Grenier à Sel, JB Jongkind, no. 4, 21 July-31 August 1963.
Special notice
Lot is imported from outside the EU. For each lot the buyer’s premium is calculated as 37.75% of the hammer price up to a value of €50,000, plus 31.7% of the hammer price between €50,001 and €1,600,000, plus 22.02% of any amount in excess of €1,600,000.

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Lot Essay

The sculptor Pierre-Bernard Prouha befriended Jongkind in Paris, he also made a bust of Jongkind which is in the collection of the Musée Hector Berliosz in Côte Saint-André.

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