Johan Jongkind

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Jongkind, Johan

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Veules-les-Roses. 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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NOTE: To our knowledge, Jongkind never painted in Veules-les-Roses, but instead painted in the nearby Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

Saint-Valery-en-Caux

The town of Saint-Valery-en-Caux (population: 4,200) is located a few kilometres next to Veules-les-Roses at the West alongside the coast.

1852- Johan Jongkind - Saint-Valery-en-Caux, sunset
1852- Johan Jongkind – Saint-Valery-en-Caux, sunset
xxxx- Johan Jongkind - View of Saint-Valery-en-Caux from the heights
xxxx- Johan Jongkind – View of Saint-Valery-en-Caux from the heights

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

Veules-les-Roses was, and still is, a popular place for artists since it’s very pretty, with France’s smallest river running through it, several watermills, watercrest fields and most thatched roof houses that are still intact after centuries. The town owns its name thanks to the many roses planted here.

Here are all the artists that have worked in Veules-les-Roses and its surroundings (a link “⇠” will appear next to their names when published):

NOTE: A “*” next to their name means the artist did NOT work in the Veules itself, instead worked nearby.

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