"Monsieur Jongkind is a very fine Colorist. His slightly over-bright colors belong to him alone, his vividly sketched landscapes have great character, his paintings could be recognized among thousands. This is a fairly rare merit today. Monsieur Jongkind is opening up a very pretty part in art. It is not a royal highway, but where he walks by himself, without being elbowed out."
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Quote of Edmond About in 'the Salon of 1855'; as cited by Victorine Hefting, in Jongkinds's Universe, Henri Scrépel, Paris, 1976, p. 37-38
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Johan Jongkind
Johan Jongkind (3 June 1819 – 9 February 1891) was a landscape painter of Dutch origin who painted in oil on canvas and in watercolor on paper - in France à nd in the Netherlands. He anticipated the plain-air innovations of Impressionism and was teaching in open air Boudin and Monet.
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