Ornacieux (recto and verso)
Medium
Watercolor and gouache, with black chalk (recto), and black chalk off-set (verso), on cream wove paper
Dimensions
16.6 × 25.4 cm (6 9/16 × 10 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113068
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...