Landschap, mogelijk een duinlandschap 1881 - 1927

Johan Antonie de Jonge made this drawing, likely a dune landscape, sometime between the late 19th and early 20th century with graphite on paper. Look at how the marks build up, dark and dense in the foreground, dissolving into light and air in the distance. I imagine de Jonge, out in the landscape with his sketchbook, trying to capture the feeling of the place—the wind, the light, the way the sand shifts and moves. The lines are so alive! They remind me of Cy Twombly's scribbles, but here, they're grounded in a real, observed space. The pressure of the graphite on the page varies, creating a beautiful range of tones. See how some lines are thick and bold, while others are light and almost disappearing? That contrast gives the drawing a sense of depth and atmosphere, it creates a feeling of being there, in that very specific place. It's like he's whispering secrets about the landscape.