View from the Quai d'Orsay
Medium
Oil on canvas, mounted on wood
Dimensions
17 1/4 x 26 in. (43.8 x 66 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Meta Cecile Schwarz, 2001
Accession Number
2001.652
Tags
MenRiversBoatsParis
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...