Le Havre – The Artists – Jongkind, Johan

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Le Havre. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

Johan Jongkind

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Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819 – 1891) was a Dutch artist. He painted many marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of the Impressionist movement.

Jongkind was born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands near the border with Germany. Trained at the art academy in The Hague under Andreas Schelfhout, in 1846 he moved to Montparnasse in Paris, France where he studied under Eugene Isabey and Francois-Edouard Picot.

Two years later, the Paris Salon accepted his work for its exhibition, and he received acclaim from critic Charles Baudelaire and later on from Emile Zola. He was to experience little success, however, and he suffered bouts of depression complicated by alcoholism.

Jongkind returned to live in Rotterdam in 1855, and remained there until 1860. Back in Paris, in 1861 he rented a studio on the rue de Chevreuse in Montparnasse where some of his paintings began to show glimpses of the Impressionist style to come.

In 1862 he met in Normandy, in the famous ferme Saint-Simeon in Honfleur, with some of his artist friends, such as Alfred Sisley, Eugene Boudin, and the young Claude Monet, to all of whom Jongkind served as a mentor. Monet later referred to him as “…a quiet man with such a talent that is beyond words” and credited the “definitive education” of his own eye to Jongkind.

In 1878, Jongkind and his companion Josephine Fesser moved to live in the small town of La Cote-Saint-Andre near Grenoble in the Isere departement in the southeast of France. He died in 1891 in Saint-Egreve, in the same departement. He is buried in the cemetery of La Cote-Saint-Andre.

Click here to read Jongkind’s full bio on Wikipedia.

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1862 Johan Jongkind - Le Havre
1862 – Johan Jongkind – Le Havre
1862 Johan Jongkind - Le Havre
1862 – Johan Jongkind – Le Havre
1862- Johan Barthold Jongkind - Le Havre
1862- Johan Barthold Jongkind – Le Havre
1862- Johan Barthold Jongkind - Le Havre
1862- Johan Barthold Jongkind – Le Havre
1862- Johan Barthold Jongkind - The Coast close to Le Havre
1862- Johan Barthold Jongkind – The Coast close to Le Havre
1862 Johan Jongkind - View-from-the-beach,-Le-Havre
1862 – Johan Jongkind – View from the beach, Le Havre
1865- Johan Barthold Jongkind - The Vauban Port at Le Havre
1865- Johan Barthold Jongkind – The Vauban Port at Le Havre

TODAY: The Basin Vauban is a port area used today by pleasure boats. It was where you will find the “Docks” shopping mall and several of Le Havre’s Universities.

Sainte-Adresse

The city of Sainte-Adresse (population: 7,400) is an immediate suburb of Le Havre and lies to the North/West alongside the coast. It shares the same seaside promenade with Le Havre.

1853 Johan Jongkind - Sainte-Adresse
1853 – Johan Jongkind – Sainte-Adresse
1853 Johan Jongkind - Rocky Coast near Sainte-Adresse
1853 – Johan Jongkind – Rocky Coast near Sainte-Adresse

NOTE: At the end of Sainte-Adresse you will still find nothing but rocks, apart from a statue placed there in 2018. The area is appropriately called the End of The World (in French “Le Bout du Monde”).

1861 - Johan Jongkind - The coast at Sainte-Adresse
1861 – Johan Jongkind – The coast at Sainte-Adresse
1861 - Johan Barthold Jongkind - Sainte-Adresse
1861 – Johan Barthold Jongkind – Sainte-Adresse
1862 - Johan Jongkind - Saint-Adresse, Normandy
1862 – Johan Jongkind – Sainte-Adresse, Normandy
1862 - Johan Jongkind - The beach at Sainte-Adresse
1862 – Johan Jongkind – The beach at Sainte-Adresse
1862 Johan Jongkind - Seacoast at Sainte-Adresse
1862 – Johan Jongkind – Seacoast at Sainte-Adresse
1862 Johan Jongkind - The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
1862 – Johan Jongkind – The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

NOTE: Although probably painted on the beach of Le Havre, the view is that of Sainte-Adresse. The church you see on top of the hill still exists and is called “Notre-dame-des-Flots”. If you ever get a chance, visit this little chapel.

1862 Johan Jongkind - The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
1862 – Johan Jongkind – The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
1862 - Johan Barthold Jongkind - The coast of Sainte-Adresse
1862 – Johan Barthold Jongkind – The coast of Sainte-Adresse
1863 Johan Jongkind - The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
1863 – Johan Jongkind – The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
1863 - Johan Jongkind - Sainte-Adresse
1863 – Johan Jongkind – Sainte-Adresse
1863 - Johan Jongkind - Seaside at Sainte-Adresse
1863 – Johan Jongkind – Seaside at Sainte-Adresse
1866 Johan Jongkind - The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
1866 – Johan Jongkind – The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
???? - Johan Jongkind - Boats on the shore at Sainte-Adresse
???? – Johan Jongkind – Boats on the shore at Sainte-Adresse

Harfleur

Harfleur (population: 8300) is a small city located close to Le Havre on the East. It’s a suburb of Le Havre.

1850 Johan Jongkind - Harfleur
1850 – Johan Jongkind – Harfleur
1850 Johan Jongkind - View of Harfleur
1850 – Johan Jongkind – View of Harfleur
1852 - Johan Barthold Jongkind - Figures on a jetty in the moonlit harbour of Harfleur
1852 – Johan Barthold Jongkind – Figures on a jetty in the moonlit harbour of Harfleur
1852 Johan Jongkind - View of Harfleur
1852 – Johan Jongkind – View of Harfleur
1866 - Johan Barthold Jongkind - The Harbour in Harfleur
1866 – Johan Barthold Jongkind – The Harbour in Harfleur

Jongkind painted in several places in France (a link “” to his works per place will appear below when published):

Here are the painters/artists who painted in Le Havre (a “*” indicates that the artist did not worked directly in Le Havre itself, instead worked closeby, a link “” to the artist’s works will appear below when published):

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