€39,500 raised to acquire a work by Johan Barthold Jongkind

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Success for “ Jongkind in Giverny“. An operation of participatory sponsorshipwhich was held from May 7 to November 3, 2024, launched to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Giverny Impressionism Museum.

In this context, after the 39,500 euros collected, The table The Scheldt near Antwerp, setting sun by Johan Barthold Jongkind enriches the collection of the Giverny Impressionism Museum, in Eure, thanks to the generous support of 297 private donors, Friends of the museum and patrons such as McArthurGlen Paris-Giverny et Museoteca.

Participatory sponsorship

“We are infinitely grateful to all the patrons, individuals and companies, who made it possible to acquire this painting by Jongkind. Greatly poetic, delicately constructed, admirably executed, this work evokes all the graces of impressionism. It will perfectly accompany in our collection the other paintings by Eugène Boudin or Paul Signac which evoke water, the river, the sea.

This masterful work by Jongkind represents the entrance to Antwerp, seen from the river, which opens onto a maritime expanse bathed in a twilight atmosphere where sky and water mingle.

Who was Johan Barthold Jongkind?

Six years before the creation of Impression, soleil levant by Claude Monet (1872, Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet), this major work prefigures the birth of impressionism, celebrated this year by the national operation led by the Orsay museum.

Trained in drawing and watercolor in The Hague, supported by a scholarship from the Dutch royal family, Jongkind was introduced in 1845 to the French painter Eugène Isabey, who invited him to come and study in his atelier has Paris.

Jongkind was quickly recognized by the French artistic community. He notably paints the landscapes of Paris, the Normandie or Brittany. Admitted to the Salon in 1848, he was rewarded several times.

He returned to Holland in 1855 where he lived until 1860 before settling back in Paris. In 1866, Jongkind stayed in Belgium and Holland.

On September 10 he went to Antwerp, where he stayed until October 16. He will multiply pencil studies, sketching the cathedral, the water, the sailors The Scheldt near Antwerp, setting sun is the 299th work to join the collection of the Giverny Impressionism Museum.

The painting thus joins an engraving by the artist, The setting sun, port of Antwerp (1868), which was acquired in 2023.

Acquisition majeure

This collection, whose vocation is to present to the public the impressionist movement from its beginnings to contemporary art, is composed of works by great masters such as Gustave Caillebotte, Eugène Boudin or Pierre Bonnard, but also more contemporary pieces such as sculptures by Giuseppe Penone or Éva Jospin.

Supported by the Circle of Patrons, the Friends of the museum and the generosity of donors, the Giverny Museum of Impressionisms pursues a bold acquisition policy, in resonance with the identity of the museum.

“To allow everyone to admire this major acquisition, the painting will be exceptionally hung during the summer of 2025 in the Les Collections au jardin exhibition,” concludes Cyrille Sciama.

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