The Church of St.-Médard on the Rue Mouffetard
1871
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819-1891)
Not on View

Jongkind is best known for his landscapes of Normandy coastal villages and scenes of Paris. His paintings enjoyed a modest critical and financial success, and he exhibited at both the official Salon and the 1863 Salon des Refusés.

Details

  • Artist Name: Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819-1891)
  • Title: The Church of St.-Médard on the Rue Mouffetard
  • Date: 1871
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 17 x 22-1/16 in. (43.2 x 56 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
  • Accession Number: M.1968.07.P
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation

Object Information

Théophile Bascle, Paris (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12-14 April 1883, no. 116, as Vue de l’église de Saint-Médard, à Paris).
René Lucas by 189, consigned, in partnership with Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris, to;
[Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, sold 18 March 1937 to];
R. A. Peto, London, and Bombridge, Isle of Wight, still in 1964.
Private Collection [?Saint Albin or Sabin], Paris.
[Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, by 1967];
[Drs. Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich, sold to];
Norton Simon Art Foundation.

Selected Pictures by J. B. Jongkind, 1819-1891

  • London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., 1937-03-18 to 1937-04-10

Anthology--Loan Exhibition of French Pictures from Private Collections in Aid of the Blind Children at Dorton House, Aylesbury

  • London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., 1949-06-08 to 1949-06-28

Paris-Londres: A Collection of Pictures Many Recently Acquired in France

  • London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., 1967-05-31 to 1967-06-24

Tableaux et Aquarelles de Jongkind

  • Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1899-05-15 to 1899-06-10

[on loan]

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1969-07-16 to 1974-11-26

Reinstallation of South Wing

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1993-10-07 to 1995-08-13

Three Centuries of French Art: Selections from The Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Foundation_2

  • California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1974-10-19 to 1976-06-15

Images of the Landscape, Barbizon and Impressionist Paintings from the Permanent Collection

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1987-07-02 to 1989-10-29

By Day & By Night: Paris in the Belle Époque

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2019-10-04 to 2020-03-02

Selections from the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art

  • Princeton University Art Museum, 1972-12-03 to 1974-07-17
  • Nathan, Peter, Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922-1972, 1972, no. 58
  • Hefting, Victorine, Jongkind: sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque, 1975, no. 557 p. 229
  • The French Impressionists in Southern California: Paintings, Sculptures and Prints in Public Collections. A Guidebook and Catalogue, 1984,
  • Stein, Adolphe; Janine Sinizergues, Sylvie Brame, Francois Lorenceau, Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jongkind: Peintures, aquarelles, dessins et gravures, 2003, fig. 644 p. 1871
  • Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
  • Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 441 p. 298

Additional Artwork by Artist

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