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Entrance to the Port of Honfleur
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819-1891)
1863–64
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 42.2 × 56.2 cm (16 5/8 × 22 1/4 in.); Framed: 62.9 × 76.9 × 8.9 cm (24 3/4 × 30 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Louise B. and Frank H. Woods Purchase Fund in honor of The Art Institute of Chicago Diamond Jubilee
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Along with Eugène-Louis Boudin (see his Approaching Storm), Johan Barthold Jongkind brought a new spirit to the painting of coastal scenes. In content, palette, and technique, the works of these two older artists played an important part in the development of Impressionism. Claude Monet knew Boudin well and adopted him as his mentor, but he claimed that it was Jongkind who “educated his eye.” Though they painted their final compositions in the studio, both Boudin and Jongkind strove to retain the freshness of their plein-air (outdoor) sketches.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
