He painted them 'after life', but one has to agree on the definition of this phrase insofar as he was concerned. A painting by Jongkind 'after life' is not a straightforward copy of the motif he had settled on. It is the reproduction of the same subject treated through watercolour. His first sketch is a watercolour. It is with his watercolour brush that he captured directly the impression of nature

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He painted them 'after life', but one has to agree on the definition of this phrase insofar as he was concerned. A painting by Jongkind 'after life' is not a straightforward copy of the motif he had settled on. It is the reproduction of the same subject treated through watercolour. His first sketch is a watercolour. It is with his watercolour brush that he captured directly the impression of nature" in the context of "In the biography on Jongkind in 1918, by Etienne Moreau-Nélaton; as quoted at the website of Musée d’Orsay, 04-12-2017: 'Johan Barthold Jongkind' http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/archives/exhibitions-archives/browse/12/article/johan-barthold-jongkind-1819-1891-6778.html?S=&print=1&no_cache=1&
• Jongkind was not a completely open-air painter like Monet was. In front of his subject, he executed watercolors rather fast and with mastery. He then used these pictures to make afterwards his oil-paintings in the studio" to mean that wisdom is timeless.