Soleil couchant, port d'Anvers (Sunset, Port of Antwerp)
Medium
etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.8 x 23.9 cm (6 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 28 x 40.9 cm (11 x 16 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2010.87.3
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...