Jongkind (1819 –1891 )was born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands near the border with Germany. studied at the art academy in The Hague under Andreas Schelfhout, in 1846 he relocated to Montparnasse in Paris, France where he trained under Eugène Isabey and François-Édouard Picot. Two years later, the Paris Salon accepted his work for its exhibition, and he received acclaim from critic Charles Baudelaire and later on from Émile Zola. He was to experience little success, however, and he suffered bouts of depression complicated by alcoholism.

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