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1819-1891
RUE NOTRE DAME, PARIS

measurements
15 3/8 by 18 1/2 in.

alternate measurements
39 by 47 cm

Painted in 1866.

Signed and dated Jongkind 1866 (lower right)

Oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Widener Collection, Philadelphia

Kunsthandel Pieter A. Scheen, The Hague (1977)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

EXHIBITED

Dordrechts Museum; Tokyo, Odakyu Grand Gallery; Nagasaki, Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Prefectural Art Museum, Jongkind, 1982-83, no. 38
The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Johan Barthold Jongkind 1819-1891, 2003-04, no. 108

LITERATURE

Victorine Hefting, Jongkind, sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, Paris 1975, no. 381
Victorine Hefting, J.B. Jongkind, Voorloper van het impressionisme, Amsterdam, 1992, p. 89
Adolphe Stein, Sylvie Brame, François Lorenceau, J. Sinizergues, Jongkind. Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre. Peintures I, Paris 2003, no. 426, illustrated p. 202
John Sillevis, J. Foucart, Sylvie Gache-Patin, Götz Czymmek, M-P. Salé, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Zwolle 2003, no. 115, illustrated p. 99

NOTE

Rue Notre Dame, Paris is an exceptional picture from Jongkind's production of the 1860s. It was painted the year after the artist participated in the Paris Salon at the Palais des Industries. Jongkind had been so taken by the charm of the French capital that he returned the following October to paint this scene. The style of the picture, with its brightly colored palette and nearly imperceptible dabs of paint, recalls the paintings of Corot and those of the Barbizon school.

On a map by Baedeker of Paris dating from 1867, the Rue Notre-Dame is called the Rue Vieille Notre Dame. According to this map, the street went from the Rue Monge to the Rue du Pont des Biches. In the present work, the distant view depicts the Place Scipion.