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Along the Ourcq

Artist Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819 - 1891)

CultureDutch

Date1866

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 13 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. (33.7 x 56.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 21 3/4 x 30 1/4 in. (55.2 x 76.8 cm)

InscribedSigned lower right: "JONKIND 1866"

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.545

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 217

DescriptionThis oil on canvas painting gives a plein-air impression with its crisp blue, vast skyline with trees on the left side of the canvas. Seen in the background, on the right, are buildings. People in the fields, on the road and across the canal sparsely populate the canvas.

Label TextJohan Barthold Jongkind Dutch, active France, 1819–1891 Along the Ourcq, 1866 Oil on canvas The day is bright and the air is clear in this brilliant suburban landscape. Although Johan Barthold Jongkind probably painted this scene in his studio, he did so using sketches he had made on the banks of the Ourcq, a canal just outside of Paris. The resulting freshness and luminosity inspired budding Impressionists, including Claude Monet, who met the Dutch artist in 1862. “From that time on,” Monet wrote, “Jongkind was my real master, and it was to him that I owed the final education of my eye.” Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.545 ProvenanceProbably Théophile Bascle, Bordeaux; Bascle sale, Georges Petit, Paris, April 12-14, 1883; Serge Morin, Paris; Rex Evans, Los Angeles, 1954; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, 1971. Exhibition History"French Paintings 1789-1929 from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Dayton Art Institute, March 25 - May 22, 1960. (Exhib. cat. no. 52). "Paintings of the Barbizon School," Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Jan. 6 - 29, 1962. (Exhib. cat. no. 34). "The Controversial Century 1850-1950," Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Massachusetts, and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1962. Catalogue is not paged or numbered. "French Landscape Painters from Four Centuries," Finch College Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 20, 1965 - Jan. 9, 1966. (Exhib. cat. no. 30). "Hommage à Baudelaire," University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, March 1968. "Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists," Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Oct. 15, 1976 - Feb. 13, 1977. (Exhib. cat. no. 11). "French Paintings from the Chrysler Museum," North Carolina Museum of Art, May 31 - Sept. 14, 1986; Birmingham Museum of Art, Nov. 6, 1986 - Jan. 18, 1987. (Exhib. cat. no. 41). "Upstairs/Downstairs: Masterpieces from the Chrylser Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 10 - December 30, 2012.Published ReferencesPriscilla C. Colt and Charles H. Elam. _French Paintings 1789-1929 from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr._. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio. 1960. No. 52. Foreword by Charles F. Comfort, LL.D., and an introduction by William S.A. Dale, Ph.D. _The Controversial Century: 1850-1950_. Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Massachusetts. 1962: Charles C. Cunningham, with Susan D. Peters and Kathleen Zimmerer. _Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists: Painters of the Ecole Saint-Siméon_. Williamstown, Mass.: The Institute. 1977. No. 11. Jefferson C. Harrison. _French Paintings from the Chrysler Museum_. The Chrysler Museum. 1986. No. 41. Jefferson C. Harrison. _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_. The Chrysler Museum. 1991. 120, plate 95.