About This Artwork
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Dutch, 1819-1891
Entrance to the Port of Honfleur1863/64
Oil on canvas
16 5/8 x 22 1/4 in. (42.2 x 56.2 cm)
Inscribed lower right: Jongkind 1864
Louise B. and Frank H. Woods Purchase Fund in honor of The Art Institute of Chicago Diamond Jubilee, 1968.614
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Hague, Pulchri Studios and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tentoonstelling Jongkind (1819-1891), March-April, 1930, cat. 23.
New York, Carroll Carstairs Galleries, Johan-Barthold Jongkind: Painting and Watercolors, April 20-May 13, 1939, cat. 6.
Tokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition, Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 1, 1985, cat. 15; traveled to Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986.
Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 11 (ill.).
Publication History
Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot 32, no. 32 (March 16, 1926).
Claude Roger-Marx, Jongkind (Paris, 1932), pl. 6
George Besson, Johan-Barthold Jongkind (1940-9?), pl. 16.
Diane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (New York, 1980), p. 174.
Richard R. Brettel, French Salon Artists, 1800–1900 (Chicago, 1987), p. 53.
The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 11, pp. 42-43 (ill.).
Ownership History
Jean Baptiste Théophile, also known as Théophile Bascle (died 1882); his estate sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, April 12-14, 1883, lot 65 [according to Hebert sale catalogue]. Madame Hebert, Paris; her estate sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 15, 1926, lot 45 (ill.), to Dru [according to Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot]. Van Gelder, Paris, by 1930 to at least 1932 [lent to The Hague and Amsterdam exh.; see also Roger-Marx 1932]. John Dorus Van Itallie, New Jersey [information provided by Lock Galleries]. Lock Galleries, New York; sold to the Art Institute, 1968.

