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'''Johan Barthold Jongkind''' (Lattrop, [[Netherlands]], 1819 – Grenoble, 1891) was a Dutch [[painter]] and printmaker. He is considered a precursor of [[Impressionism]] whose watercolors  influenced [[Eugene Boudin]] and [[Claude Monet]]. Jongkind is known as ''"the painter of Honfleur and Paris streets"''. He contributed to make watercoloring an art by itself.

'''Johan Barthold Jongkind''' (Lattrop, [[Netherlands]], 1819 – Grenoble, 1891) was a Dutch [[painter]] and printmaker. He attended the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague. Jongkind is considered a precursor of [[Impressionism]] whose watercolors  influenced [[Eugene Boudin]] and [[Claude Monet]], and is known as ''"the painter of Honfleur and Paris streets"''. He contributed to make watercoloring an art by itself. Jongkind spent most of his life in Paris where he established ties with painters of the [[Barbizon School]]. He began to exhibit at the Salon in 1848 and took part in the Exposition Universelle in 1855.

He also exhibit at the Salon des Refusés.

Both, [[Charles Baudelaire]] and [[Émile Zola]] praised Jongkind's work.

In 1862, Claude Monet (then 22 years old), Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind, who work together on the coast, begin to completely paint outdoors. [http://www.galerieneffegravure.com/saint_simeon_farmhouse_painters.htm]

 

Painting outdoors (en plein air), directly from nature, later became an important practice of the landscape work of the Impressionists.

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[[File:Jongkind The Port of Rotterdam.jpg]]

[[File:Jongkind The Port of Rotterdam.jpg]]

The Port of Rotterdam, 1857.

The Port of Rotterdam, 1857.

Painting outdoors (en plein air), directly from nature, later became an important practice of the landscape work of the Impressionists.

Both, [[Charles Baudelaire]] and [[Émile Zola]] praised Jongkind's work.

== See also ==

== See also ==