MB109342 Bronze medal of Dutch painter Jongkind 1967 by M Leognany for the Monnaie de Paris 68mm.
Jongkind 1819-1891 made marine scapes in oil and watercolour. Â Hence the reverse of this medal shows a river (the Seine? as he lived in Paris from the 1840s) and the artist’s palette with a sailing boat and windmill. Â Text: pere de l’ecole des paysagistes (Manet quote). Â … father of the landscape school. Â Also regarded as a precursor of the Impressionist movement, he was a contemporary of Theodore Rousseau and Gustave Courbet.
