Le Sidaner made his first nocturnal cityscape around 1900. In this work, painted more than thirty years later, he still depicted windows in dark purple facades in the same Post Impressionist style. His subject matter distinguishes him from the Impressionists, who seldom painted evening or night time scenes.
Specifications
| Title | Moonlit City Square in Cherbourg |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Oil on canvas |
| Object type |
Painting
> Painting
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 46,5 cm Width 55,7 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Painter:
Henri Le Sidaner
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| Accession number | St 97 |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 1953 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1953 |
| Creation date | in circa 1934 |
| Internal exhibitions |
The Collection Enriched (2011) |
| External exhibitions |
Dwars door Frankrijk met Henri le Sidaner (2013) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | France > Western Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Henri Le Sidaner
Port Louis 1862 - Versailles 1939
Henri Le Sidaner was born on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and grew up in Dunkirk. He studied briefly at the Academy of Paris and in 1882 left...
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