View from the Quai d’Orsay, Johan Barthold Jongkind.
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” and use zoom or download arrow.
What might appear, in its wonderful painterly immediacy, to have been painted by a contemporary plein air master, was in fact painted in the mid 1800’s.
Jongkind, a Dutch painter who spent much of his career in France, is often mentioned a precursor of French Impressionism. I think you can draw a pretty direct line through to the best painterly realism of today.
Beautiful.
