View of the Town of Maassluis
Medium
Etching on cream chine laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.3 × 31.5 cm (8 13/16 × 12 7/16 in.); Plate: 23.6 × 32.7 cm (9 5/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Primary support: 23.4 × 31.9 cm (9 1/4 × 12 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 29.7 × 38.5 cm (11 3/4 × 15 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
132649
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...