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Johan Jongkind Quotes

1819–1891 France

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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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.

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johan Jongkind (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.