Window on the Bay of Villefranche

Let's move to beautiful Nice!

Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner, who was a contemporary of the Post-Impressionists, was an Intimist painter known for his paintings of domestic interiors and quiet street scenes. His style contained elements of Impressionism with the influences of Édouard Manet, Monet, and of the Pointillists.

Window on the Bay of Villefranche was praised for its demonstration of technical prowess, seen in the high range of colors, the complex linear forms, and the combination of both interior and exterior light. Le Sidaner, in a letter, said that he had composed the work in his hotel room overlooking the bay in the small coastal town near Nice and that he had utilized a similar vantage point in other paintings. Like many of the Post-Impressionist artists, he did not paint directly from the scene but studied and sketched its composition carefully before completing the work in his studio.

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