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JOHAN-BARTHOLD JONGKIND (DUTCH 1819-1891) MOONLIT CANAL SCENE WITH BARGES SAILING BY A WINDMILL Oil on canvas Signed and dated '72' (lower right) 42 x 32cm (16½ x 12½ in.) Provenance: From a Private Collection Literature: A. Stein, Jongkind, Paris, 2003, No. 665 Born in 1819 in Lattrop, in the Netherlands, Johan Barthold Jongkind was an influential artist who paved the way for Impressionist art. Claude Monet declared: 'His painting was too new and in far too artistic a strain to be then, in 1862, appreciated at its true worth.' Jongkind's paintings typically depict marine landscapes, both in the Netherlands and France, which he sketched in watercolour and then painted in oil in his studio. Pissarro declared that 'Landscape without Jongkind would have a totally different aspect'. In addition to being esteemed by renowned artists, Jongkind was also acclaimed by literary men such as Emile Zola and Charles Baudelaire