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Dutch landscape painter and printmaker Johan Barthold Jongkind was born in Lattrop in 1819. He studied at The Hague under Romantic painter Andreas Schelfhout and in 1846 was given a grant to study in Paris with Eugène Isabey. While in Paris he also studied the figure at the studio of F.E. Picot and met Theodore Rousseau, Thomas Couture, and Eugène Boudin. In 1847 Jongkind made his first trip to Normandy and Brittany, returned to Holland, and then in 1850 came back to the French coast with Isabey. His friend and financial supporter, Pierre-Firmin Martin, raised money through the sale of donated art works to bring Jongkind back to Paris in 1860 following a five-year stay in Holland. For the next eight years, Jongkind spent his summers in the Netherlands and he continued to alternate between the two countries and use their landscapes and coastlines as subjects.
In Paris, Jongkind's circle of friends included Isabey, Eugene Courbet, Thomas Couture, Theodore Rousseau, and Eugène Boudin. As a painter of atmosphere and of a changing shifting nature, he stands as a precursor of Impressionism, but he did not produced finished oil paintings en plein air (outdoors). Jongkind used his plein air drawings and watercolors as the basis for works completed in his studio. He did not achieve widespread recognition until after his death in 1891, but during his own lifetime he was admired by several notable artists, including Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet.
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Gail Davitt, "European Artist Biographies," DMA research document, 1986-1987, Education files.
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Photograph of Johan Barthold Jongkind; 248949139: UMO
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Johan Barthold Jongkind~Read a detailed biography of the artist on the Musée d'Orsay's webpage from their 2004 exhibition of Jongkind's work.
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- “Jongkind is now the object of frantic speculation. His pictures are being sold for eight hundred to a thousand francs.” —Eugène Boudin, French painter, in a letter written in 1869
- “[Jongkind is] the father of modern landscape painting.” (Edouard Manet, French painter and printmaker, commenting after Jongkind’s exhibition at the Durand-Ruel gallery, 1889)
- “For myself, I like Jongkind; to me he is an artist to the tips of his fingers. . . . In his work all lies in the impression, his thought carries his hand. . . . Once the sketch is finished, the picture completed, you do not worry about the execution; it disappears before the power or the charm of the general effect.” (Jules Castagnary, French critic, in “Salon des Refusés,” L’Artiste, 1863)
- “Jongkind made me show my sketches, invited me to work with him, explained to me the how and why of his methods . . . from the start he was my real master. It is to him that I owe the definitive education of my eye.” (Claude Monet, French painter, writing in 1900, recalling an encounter in 1864)
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General Description
Dutch landscape painter and printmaker Johan Barthold Jongkind was born in Lattrop in 1819. He studied at The Hague under Romantic painter Andreas Schelfhout and in 1846 was given a grant to study in Paris with Eugène Isabey. While in Paris he also studied the figure at the studio of F.E. Picot and met Theodore Rousseau, Thomas Couture, and Eugène Boudin. In 1847 Jongkind made his first trip to Normandy and Brittany, returned to Holland, and then in 1850 came back to the French coast with Isabey. His friend and financial supporter, Pierre-Firmin Martin, raised money through the sale of donated art works to bring Jongkind back to Paris in 1860 following a five-year stay in Holland. For the next eight years, Jongkind spent his summers in the Netherlands and he continued to alternate between the two countries and use their landscapes and coastlines as subjects.
In Paris, Jongkind's circle of friends included Isabey, Eugene Courbet, Thomas Couture, Theodore Rousseau, and Eugène Boudin. As a painter of atmosphere and of a changing shifting nature, he stands as a precursor of Impressionism, but he did not produced finished oil paintings en plein air (outdoors). Jongkind used his plein air drawings and watercolors as the basis for works completed in his studio. He did not achieve widespread recognition until after his death in 1891, but during his own lifetime he was admired by several notable artists, including Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet.
Adapted From
Gail Davitt, "European Artist Biographies," DMA research document, 1986-1987, Education files.
Fun Facts
- “Jongkind is now the object of frantic speculation. His pictures are being sold for eight hundred to a thousand francs.” —Eugène Boudin, French painter, in a letter written in 1869
- “[Jongkind is] the father of modern landscape painting.” (Edouard Manet, French painter and printmaker, commenting after Jongkind’s exhibition at the Durand-Ruel gallery, 1889)
- “For myself, I like Jongkind; to me he is an artist to the tips of his fingers. . . . In his work all lies in the impression, his thought carries his hand. . . . Once the sketch is finished, the picture completed, you do not worry about the execution; it disappears before the power or the charm of the general effect.” (Jules Castagnary, French critic, in “Salon des Refusés,” L’Artiste, 1863)
- “Jongkind made me show my sketches, invited me to work with him, explained to me the how and why of his methods . . . from the start he was my real master. It is to him that I owe the definitive education of my eye.” (Claude Monet, French painter, writing in 1900, recalling an encounter in 1864)
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Johan Barthold Jongkind~Read a detailed biography of the artist on the Musée d'Orsay's webpage from their 2004 exhibition of Jongkind's work.
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