Sur les quais, à Honfleur

Description

Johan Barthold Jongkind
The Netherlands, 1819–1891
Along the Quays, Honfleur (Sur les quais à Honfleur)
1864
Graphite and watercolor on white wove paper
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Edgar A. Kahn, 2002/2.115
The older painter Eugène Isabey encouraged Jongkind to paint in Normandy, as Isabey himself had done for years. Together, Jongkind, Boudin, and Monet spent considerable time together in the areas of Honfleur and Trouville during the mid-1860s.
This drawing of the quays in the inner harbor at Honfleur depicts a scene very similar to the canvas of nearly the identical view dating two years later. Both views at Honfleur focus on the expanse of the quay and the labor of workers attending to the vessels. The cropped view of ships at their docks is found in photographs of ships at their berths by Le Secq.
(Normandy show, 2010)