Johan Jongkind Quotes

Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism (1819-1891)

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Johan Jongkind (3 June 1819 – 9 February 1891) was a landscape painter of Dutch origin who painted in oil on canvas and in watercolor on paper - in France ànd in the Netherlands. He anticipated the plain-air innovations of Impressionism and was teaching in open air Boudin and Monet.

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Pen Names: Jongkind‏, Johan Barthold • Jongkind, Jean Berthold

Alternative Names: Johan Barthold Jongkind • J. B. Jongkind • Johann Barthold Jongkind • Jean Berthold Jongkind • Johan-Barthold Jongkind • Johan Bartold Jongkind • Jean Barthold Jongkind • j. b. jongkindt • Jean Bertold Jongkind • Johan B. Jongkind • Jean Baptiste Jongkind • Jongkind • j.b. johnkind • jongkind johann barthold • j.b. jongkind • I. B. Jongkind • jongkind j.b. • Jean B. Jongkind • Jongkindt • J.-G. Jongkind • Joan Barthold Jongkind • Jean-Berthold Jongkind • Jan Jongkind • J. Barthold Jongkind

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Eight days ago I left Paris and here I am at Honfleur, the place to which I return, as always, with new pleasure. It is a little seaport where there are ten or twenty ships of all nations; not counting the fishing vessels of the same nations. I tell you that this is very interesting for my studies.

I miss my friends in Paris. Holland is fine to paint, but Paris is the only place to follow one's studies. One can find judges there who will encourage you, who wil tell one what is necessary and what is missing. My great hope is to return as soon as the weather and luck are on my side for he journey.

I have another painting finished, a view near Rotterdam, and then another in process, and very far along. I made them from nature, that is to say I made watercolors [in open air] after which I made my [oil]-paintings.

My specialty is really painting moonlight – but I will not forget the sunshine.

What I have suffered is unbelievable.. .I was given nothing [for his paintings in the Salon of 1855], not even a honorable mention.