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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.283
People
Johan Barthold Jongkind, Dutch (Lattrop (Denekamp), The Netherlands 1819 - 1891 La Côte-Saint-André, France)
Title
Windmills close to Rotterdam
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
September 3, 1867
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297342

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and black colored pencil on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
26.4 x 44.9 cm (10 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
One corner torn off (not taken into account in dimensions above).
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l., brown ink: Jongkind
  • inscription: Recto, l.r., black colored pencil: Rotterdam 3 Sept 67
  • watermark: Countermark IV of I. Villadary, 18th century (see curatorial notes and file). The watermark is the Dutch lion, to be seen on 1943.282.
  • inscription: Verso, u.l., graphite: Les Moulins de Boetgen
    (Boetgen was a family name in Zuid Holland (South Holland, the province in which Rotterdam lays; so probably these windmills were the property of someone named Boetgen).
  • inscription: verso, upper center, black crayon: [series of sums]
  • collector's mark: Verso, l.l., purple ink: P. Detrimont (Paul Detrimont, a Paris collector. See copies in file, correspondence Jongkind and other works with this mark. Not in Lugt).

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul Detrimont, Paris (with his mark, not in Lugt). Madame Klatz. Andre Schoeller, Paris, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, through Martin Birnbaum, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.283
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ira Moskowitz and Maurice Sérullaz, Drawings of the Masters: French Impressionists, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1962), pl. 67
  • Otto Benesch, Jan Gerrit van Gelder, and Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 2: German, Flemish and Dutch], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), no. 622, repr. (color)
  • Maurice Sérullaz, Les plus beaux dessins français du 19e siècle, Editions du Chêne (Paris, France, 1963), p. 21, 67, repr.
  • Arsene Chassang and Charles Senninger, Recueil de textes littéraires français, XIXe siècle, Libraire Hachette (Paris, France, 1965)
  • Victorine Hefting, Jongkind: sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, Arts et Metiers Graphiques (Paris, France, 1975), no. 429, p. 193, repr.

Verification Level

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