Johan Barthold Jongkind artwork • painting • for sale Coucher de soleil sur l'église, Hollande
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André (Frankrijk)
1819-1891
Coucher de soleil sur l'église, Hollande
oil on canvas 24.3 x 32.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1869 (reserved)
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 42,000
The Dutch born Jongkind spent most of his life in France, but regularly returned to the Netherlands for inspiration. Especially to Rotterdam, for his city and harbour views as well as his coastal and river landscapes of ships. His landscapes by moonlight were extraordinary. His spontaneous, free brushwork gave his paintings the immediacy of work by the Impressionists, yet they were all painted in his studio. His French contemporaries admired his work and generally saw him as one of the pioneers of Impressionism: Manet described him as the father of modern landscape painters.