Johan Barthold Jongkind

Private Collection, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 20, 1908, lot 15
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 21, 1909, lot 28
Georges Petit, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Christian Otto Zieseniss (acquired by 1921)

Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Tableaux par J.-B. Jongkind, 1921, no. 83 (titled La place de l'Eglise (Belgique))

Carla Gottlieb, "Johan-Barthold Jongkind and the views of Old Antwerp," Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten te Antwerpen, n.p., 1967, pp. 278-279, note 6, illustrated fig. 2

This painting is in original unlined condition. Under UV, a small spot of inpainting on the extreme left edge fluoresces, as does another in the sky.
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