Johan Bartold Jongkind (1819 -1891), Dutch landscape painter, mainly lived in France where he was highly esteemed by the artistic community and art lovers. Known as “the painter of Honfleur and Paris streets”, Manet used to call him “the father of the modern landscape”, and young painters such as Monet, who was his pupil at his beginnings and called him his “true master”, were seduced by his stylistic daring and his landscapes which, as soon as 1860, were signs of Impressionism. This points out that Jongkind work was essential to the development of Impressionism, which is all the more surprising since Jongkind arrived in France (in 1846) after he received in his native country a very strong and traditional training as a Dutch landscape painter that did not predestinate him for Impressionist-like painting. Whereas Jongkind work speaks for itself, it can be seen also as a link between the works of Corot and Monet, a sign of the forecoming Impressionist wave of the late 19th century.
