Exhibition at the museum
Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891)
From June 02nd to September 05th, 2004
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Montagnes et ravins
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Tony Querrec
For the freshness of his vision, particularly remarkable in his watercolours, Jongkind is rightly considered a precursor of Impressionism; he also took part in the Salon des Refusés in 1863 with the painting Ruines du château de Rosemont (musée d'Orsay). From 1873 onwards, Jongkind discovered the Dauphiné.
He ended his life in la Côte-Sainte-André, where he was buried in 1891. The artist left several landscapes painted in the Nièvre, the Dauphiné, or evoking his 1880 trip to the Midi.
With this exhibition retracing the stages of the artist's career and highlighting the diverse facets of his too-long neglected work, the Musée d'Orsay intends to pay a well-deserved homage to Jongkind and his place at the confluence of both the French and Dutch traditions.
The exhibition is now over.
See the whole program