1866
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
The Church of Overschie is a 1866 oil by Johan Jongkind, a Dutch Golden Age work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a small white church beside a canal, sunlight bouncing off the water and the stone walls. Jongkind painted this quickly, outdoors, with loose brushstrokes. The light feels real because he caught it in one sitting—no studio tricks. He was one of the first to do this regularly, which later inspired the Impressionists. To see how light changes a scene, look up *impasto*.
E[rnest] May, by 1890; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 4, 1890, lot 36, for 2,700 francs [price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Library]. Probably Durand-Ruel, New York, by 1890 [according to an invoice from Durand-Ruel to Ryerson, Ryerson Papers, Art Institute Archives]; probably sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, October 27, 1890 [according to the invoice cited above]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, November 1921, no cat. Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, A Tour of Famous Cities, October 3–November 18, 1952, no. 25.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 249. Faber Birren, History of Color in Painting: With New Principles of Color Expression (New York: Reinhold, 1965), p. 266, fig. 10-25. Victorine Hefting, Jongkind: sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque (Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques, 1975), p. 174 (ill.), no. 375. Richard Shiff, Cézanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 34, 96,…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch pronunciation: ; 3 June 1819 – 9 February 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He painted marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of impressionism.
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