“Henri Le Sidaner was attracted to oblique and mysterious light, never the harshness of noon. He preferred to paint l’heure bleue of Mediterranean dusk or his own garden at Giverny with sunlight fretted by the leaves of a vine. This painting depicts Gisors, the picturesque, historic capital of the Norman Vexin, about twenty-two miles south-west of Le Sidaner’s home in Giverny. 

Gisors is traversed by the River Epte and a network of canals. Le Sidaner depicts one of these canals lined with old houses, sunlight playing pink, orange and gold across their undulating façades. The water of the canal fragments their reflections into tiny touches of warm colours striated by gleaming, turquoise diagonals. The windowsill with geraniums is a typical motif of the artist, throwing into relief the shadowed side of the composition. Le Sidaner creates a scene of dreamlike calm and contentment, unpeopled, yet profoundly humane.”

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