Johan Barthold Jongkind artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale The harbour of Honfleur
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Lattrop 1819-1891 La Côte-Saint-André (Frankrijk)
1819-1891
The harbour of Honfleur
chalk and gouache on paper 14.0 x 23.0 cm, signed l.l. with the artist's stamp and dated 6 Sept. 65
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: nalatenschap Mme. D., Frankrijk.
Literature: Victorine Hefting, 'Jongkind: sa vie, son oeuvre, son époque', Parijs 1975, pag. 169, cat.nr. 354 (met afb.)
Exhibited: Parijs, Galerie Schmit, 'Exposition Jongkind', 4 mei-4 juni 1966, cat.nr. 81.
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.
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