Countryside near Brezins, between Grenoble and Vienne
Medium
black chalk and watercolor on two joined sheets of wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 15.2 x 47.5 cm (6 x 18 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Joan and David Maxwell
Accession Number
2006.97.1.a
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...