Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Along the Ourcq

Artist Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819-1891)

Date1866

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 13 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. (33.7 x 56.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 21 3/4 x 30 1/4 in. (55.2 x 76.8 cm)

ClassificationsEuropean art

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.545

Terms

River
Landscape
Ourcq Canal
Blue
Violet
White
Green
Yellow
Ourcq Canal, France

Collections

European Art before 1945

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Not on view

DescriptionThis oil on canvas painting gives a plein-air impression with its crisp blue, vast skyline with trees on the left side of the canvas. Seen in the background, on the right, are buildings. People in the fields, on the road and across the canal sparsely populate the canvas.

Label TextJohan Barthold Jongkind Dutch, active France, 1819–1891 Along the Ourcq, 1866 Oil on canvas The day is bright and the air is clear in this brilliant suburban landscape. Although Johan Barthold Jongkind probably painted this scene in his studio, he did so using sketches he had made on the banks of the Ourcq, a canal just outside of Paris. The resulting freshness and luminosity inspired budding Impressionists, including Claude Monet, who met the Dutch artist in 1862. “From that time on,” Monet wrote, “Jongkind was my real master, and it was to him that I owed the final education of my eye.” Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.545