Johan Barthold Jongkind
1819–1891 · Impressionism · 9 works
Johan Barthold Jongkind connected Dutch landscape traditions with the changing light of nineteenth-century France. He divided his career between the Netherlands and France, painting ports, rivers, streets, and countryside. Drawings and watercolors made before a scene could become the basis for oil paintings developed in the studio. A friend of Eugène Boudin and an important example for the young Monet, Jongkind offers a useful route toward Impressionism. His pictures also reward looking on their own terms, especially where a few lively marks make buildings and water feel part of the same atmosphere.
9 works · 1849–1866
Compare a building with its surroundings in a harbor view. Which edges remain firm, and which dissolve into small touches of paint?
Albert Pinkham Ryder
The Essex Canal, c. 1896
Alfred Sisley
The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872
Arthur Wesley Dow
Boats at Rest, c. 1895
