"Eight days ago I left Paris and here I am at Honfleur, the place to which I return, as always, with new pleasure. It is a little seaport where there are ten or twenty ships of all nations; not counting the fishing vessels of the same nations. I tell you that this is very interesting for my studies."
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Jongkind visited Honfleur for the third time in his life, in the Summer of 1865 - staying at Isabey's farm at Sainte Adresse
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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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