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The Seine at Bas-Meudon

1865

Johan Barthold Jongkind

(Dutch, 1819–1891)

France, 19th century

Oil on fabric

Framed: 55.6 x 69.5 x 11.1 cm (21 7/8 x 27 3/8 x 4 3/8 in.); Unframed: 34.1 x 48.1 cm (13 7/16 x 18 15/16 in.)

Gift of the family of Constance Mather Bishop 1993.236

Location

222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism

Fun Fact

Fellow artist Edouard Manet considered Jongkind the "father of modern landscape painting."

Description

Although born and trained in Holland, Jongkind spent much of his life painting outdoors in France. In this depiction of Bas-Meudon near Paris, the artist applied paint in small patches of bright color to suggest the intensity of outdoor light. Although typcially finished in the studio from open-air sketches, Jongkind's oil paintings achieve a convincing immediacy that greatly impressed the young Claude Monet. The two met in the early 1860s and spent part of a summer painting together along the coast of Normandy. "From that time he was my real master," Monet later acknowledged, "it was to him that I owe the final education of my eye."

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed lower right: Jongkind 1865

Provenance
1883
(Possibly Hotel Drouot, Paris, France, April 12-14, 1883, lot 84, sale Bascle Collection, sold to Paul Dutrimont)
1906
(Galerie George Petit, Paris, France, December 3-4, 1906, sale, Alexandre Blanc Collection, sold to Paul Detrimont, according to annotated catalogue in Frick library)
Samuel Mather [1851-1931], Cleveland, OH, by descent to his daughter, Constance Mather Bishop
Mrs. Robert H. Bishop, Jr., (Constance Mather Bishop) [1889-1969], Novelty, OH, by descent to her son, Dr. Johnathan S. Bishop
-1993
Dr. Johathan S. Bishop, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1993-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne. Jongkind raconté par lui-même. Paris, France: H. Laurens, 1918. Mentioned: p. 87-88
Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College, 1955. Reproduced: v. 2, p. 155
Hefting, Victorine. Jongkind d'après sa correspondance. Utrecht, Netherlands: Haentjens Dekker & Gumbert, 1969. Mentioned p. 155, letter 2131
Hefting, Victorine. Jongkind: sa vie, son œuvre, son époque. Paris, France: Arts et métiers graphiques, 1975. Reproduced: p. 356
Hefting, Victorine. J. B. Jongkind: voorloper van het impressionisme. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Bakker, 1992. Reproduced: p. 102
D' Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: v. 2, p. 377-379, no. 131
Stein, Adolphe. Jongkind: catalogue critique de l'oeuvre. Paris, France: Brame & Lorenceau, 2003. Reproduced: p. 172, fig. 368
Exhibition history

Tableaux et Aquarelles de Jongkind. Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris,France (1899).

French Paintings of the Later Nineteenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1921).

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).

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