Restaurant de la Sir?ne, Asni?res

A1066; oil on canvas; 52 x 64.4 cm.

Prov: Tetzen-Lund; Mme Paret; Mrs Alport.

Bequeathed by Dr Erich Alport, 1972; WA1972.18.

White 1999, p. 51.

Painted in 1887, a year after van Gogh had moved to Paris from his native Holland. The artist's response to the work of the Impressionists is evident in the short, straw-like strokes of paint and bright colour. Asni?res, a district on the river Seine near Paris, was popular with the Impressionists and the site of several paintings by van Gogh, dating from his first period in Paris.