Johan Barthold Jongkind, (Dutch, 1819-1891)

Sur la montagne à La Côte-Saint-André - 10 septembre 1885

Sur la montagne à La Côte-Saint-André - 10 septembre 1885
signed and dated 'Jongkind 10 Sept 1885' (lower left); inscribed and dated 'derrière la montagne du fond - Grenoble 10 Sept. 1885 / Isère / Sur la montagne à la Côte St. André' (verso)
watercolour, white heightening and pencil on paper
15.5 x 25cm (6 1/8 x 9 13/16in).
Executed on 10 September 1885

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Comité Jongkind, Paris-La Haye.

The present work shows a view from the hilltops above La Côte-Saint-André (Isère) where the artist is buried, with the massif du Vercors beyond and Saint-Égrève in the Isère valley below.

Provenance
Léon Tual Collection.
1ère Vente Jongkind, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 - 8 December 1891, lot 165.
Paul Durand-Ruel Collection, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1964, lot 63.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1989, lot 107A.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 23 April 1991, lot 253.
Hein A.M. Klaver Kunsthandel, Amsterdam (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 March 1995, lot 169.
Private collection, Milan (acquired at the above sale).