Related Paintings of Johan-Barthold Jongkind :. | The Poultry Seller | The Old Church Tower Nuenen (nn04) | the open sea | Gabrielle d'Estrees and One of Her Sisters (mk05) | the water sprite | Related Artists: John Leslie Breck 1860-1899 john D.rockefeller new york metropolian museum, cloisters collection Eouard Manet He was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern and postmodern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le dejeuner sur l'herbe) and Olympia, engendered great controversy and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism. Today, these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.
