Place d'Enfer, Paris | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.93
People: Johan Barthold Jongkind, Dutch (Lattrop (Denekamp), The Netherlands 1819 - 1891 La Côte-Saint-André, France)
Title: Place d'Enfer, Paris
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Place d'Enfer
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1868
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture: Dutch
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230043

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

42.2 x 34.2 cm (16 5/8 x 13 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.l.: Jongkind 1868 Paris
inscription: on back of stretcher: Boulevard de Enfer pres la Cimetiere de Montparnasse Paris Juillet 1868; Chez Bontemps, traiteur, marchand de vin. [no longer visible due to cardboard strainer on back of work]
exhibition label: on back of stretcher: Loan no. 58.234
inscription: on back of cardboard backing: 9L / 7[b?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Mrs. Simpson, sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 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

1943.93

Division

European and American Art

Contact

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Publication History

Victorine Hefting, Jongkind: sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, Arts et Metiers Graphiques (Paris, France, 1975), no. 465, repr. in b/w
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 114, repr. as no. 204
Adolphe Stein, Jongkind: Catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre: Peintures I, Brame and Lorenceau Editions (Paris, 2003), no. 537, p. 221, repr.

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