Road near La Côte-Saint-André
Medium
Watercolor over black chalk
Dimensions
7 1/16 x 12 13/16 in. (17.9 x 32.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mr and Mrs Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917
Accession Number
17.120.239
Tags
Art Historical Context
Johan Barthold Jongkind’s *Road near La Côte-Saint-André* captures a quiet stretch of rural France in 1885, rendered in delicate watercolor washes over a black-chalk underdrawing. A Dutch artist long resident in France, Jongkind was admired by the younger Impressionists for his ability to suggest changing light and atmosphere with economical means. The modest sheet, measuring just over seven by twelve inches, belongs to the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of drawings and prints, where it entered in 1917 as part of the Isaac D. Fletcher bequest. The combination of chalk and watercolor allowed...
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...