Wind Mill
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Lattrop 1819 - Côte-Saint-André/Isère 1891)
Lot-No. 49
Oil/cardboard, 33 x 41 cm, sign. a. dat. lo. ri. Jongkind 1864, min. rest. on the margins. - Using light local colours and a monumental composition reduced to the essentials, the painting from the mature period of J. anticipates major achievements of impressionism. - Dutch landscape painter, beginning as an office clerk he soon turned to painting, he studied in Den Haag, among others under A. Schelfhout, after exhibiting in Den Haag a. Amsterdam a royal scholarship allows him to study in the studio of E. Isabey, later he met J. Israels, Courbet, Boudin a. Monet, being of difficult character his art was nonetheless highly appreciated by fellow artists a. was far ahead of its time, next to Boudin he is considered to be the most eminent predecessor of the impressionists. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Amsterdam (Rijksmus., Stedelijk Mus.), Rotterdam (Mus. Boymans-van Beuningen), Den Haag, Brussels a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.
Johan Barthold Jongkind: Wind Mill
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Lattrop 1819 - Côte-Saint-André/Isère 1891)
Wind Mill
Lot-No. 49
Oil/cardboard, 33 x 41 cm, sign. a. dat. lo. ri. Jongkind 1864, min. rest. on the margins. - Using light local colours and a monumental composition reduced to the essentials, the painting from the mature period of J. anticipates major achievements of impressionism. - Dutch landscape painter, beginning as an office clerk he soon turned to painting, he studied in Den Haag, among others under A. Schelfhout, after exhibiting in Den Haag a. Amsterdam a royal scholarship allows him to study in the studio of E. Isabey, later he met J. Israels, Courbet, Boudin a. Monet, being of difficult character his art was nonetheless highly appreciated by fellow artists a. was far ahead of its time, next to Boudin he is considered to be the most eminent predecessor of the impressionists. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre), New York (Metrop. Mus.), Amsterdam (Rijksmus., Stedelijk Mus.), Rotterdam (Mus. Boymans-van Beuningen), Den Haag, Brussels a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.