About the Artwork
Boats on a River
1885
Johan Barthold Jongkind
1819-1891
Dutch
Unknown
Black chalk, watercolor, and gouache on discolored wove paper
Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 1/4 inches (12.1 × 18.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Maxwell Parker
53.340
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Markings
Signed and dated, in brush and blue ink, lower left: Jongkind 1885
Inscribed, in black chalk, verso, left: Envoyer mercredi 21 Juillet 86 à M.D. Doart (?); Inscribed, in pencil, verso, right: 26 x 32 | 5 x 50; Inscribed, on former back board, in pencil: creme J. H. teinte Bistre clair 28-34
Label, on a former back board: from Collection Georges Petit
Provenance
May 18-19, 1903, Alexandre Arsene,sale, no. 96 (Paris, France)
March 4 - 5, 1921, Georges Petit, sale, no. 22 (Paris, France)
Lendall Pitts
Mrs. Arthur Maxwell Parker (Helen Pitts Parker) (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA). 1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Checklist of Paintings Acquired before January 1967. Detroit, 1967, 2nd ed., p. 63.
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 91, no. 37 (ill.).
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Johan Barthold Jongkind, Boats on a River, 1885, black chalk, watercolor, and gouache on discolored wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Arthur Maxwell Parker, 53.340.
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