Batavia
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 12.3 × 19.2 cm (4 7/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Plate: 13 × 19.8 cm (5 1/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 26.2 × 35.3 cm (10 3/8 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45974
About the Artist
Johan Barthold Jongkind
Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819–1891) was born on June 3 in the rural village of Lattrop, in the Netherlands' Overijssel province, and emerged as a pivotal figure bridging Dutch landscape traditions with the dawn of Impressionism. He began his formal training at The Hague's art academy under the esteemed landscape painter Andreas Schelfhout, whose influence rooted Jongkind in the meticulous depictio...