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JOHAN BARTHOLD JONGKIND Vue d'un port.
Oil on board, circa 1855. 287x390 mm; 11 1/4x15 3/8 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto.
Provenance: Estate of the artist, Paris; his estate sale, December 7-8, 1891, Paris; private collection, Paris; Zabriskie Gallery, Paris and New York; Estate of Virginia M. Zabriskie.
Jongkind (1819–1891) was an important Dutch painter and printmaker, considered to be one of the precursors of the French Impressionist movement. Born in the city of Lattrop in the Netherlands, he began to study art in The Hague at the age of fourteen. He moved to Paris in 1845 and studied under the Romantic style artists Eugène Isabey and Charles Gleyre (the latter of whom taught a handful of students who became prominent Impressionist artists, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley). While Jongkind's work was significantly influenced by the Barbizon school of painting, he developed his own unique style of plein-air painting. He exhibited his work at the Paris Salon in 1846 and 1848 and became close with many of the French Impressionist painters early in the movement. Like those of many other Impressionists, his work was characterized by loose brushwork and a heightened sense of light and color.
