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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
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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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