Jean Béraud - The Church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Paris

Jean Béraud - The Church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Paris, a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

When this painting was exhibited in the Salon of 1877, it was seen as a document of contemporary Parisian life. Béraud (French, Saint Petersburg, 1849 - Paris, 1936) depicts a view of the rue du Faubourg St.-Honoré, which had recently become a fashionable shopping street. The church was designed in the eighteenth century by the architect J.F. Chalgrin.

[Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 81 cm]

Henri Edmond Cross - Church of Santa Maria degli Angely Near Assisi

Henri Edmond Cross - Church of Santa Maria degli Angely Near Assisi, a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

As a result of a journey to Italy, Henri Edmond Cross (Douai, May 20, 1856 - Saint Clair, May 16, 1910) produced a number of such scenes of Perugia and Assisi. Pointillism (the technique used to produce this work) is a method of painting in which the colour is applied in small dots of paint, the artist breaking complex tones up into pure colours which are then combined by the eye at a distance. Here, the chance nature of Impressionist compositions was replaced by a precisely enclosed construction, and Impressionist spontaneity by the scrupulously methodical application of identical brushstrokes to the canvas, creating the effect of a decorative coloured mosaic.

[Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92 cm]

Gerrit Berckheyde - The Market Place and Town Hall, Haarlem [c.1691]

Gerrit Berckheyde - The Market Place and Town Hall, Haarlem [c.1691], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

The view is of the west side of the market place (Grote Markt). Facing the spectator is the town hall, which was built in the 14th century as a palace of the Counts of Holland and altered in the 1630s. On the gable of the projecting part of the building is a statue of Justice and, above it, the arms of Haarlem. On the right, beside the town hall, is the beginning of the Zijlstraat. The entrance to the Grote Houtstraat is between the houses on the extreme left. On the roof of the town hall are nesting boxes for storks. 

[Oil on oak, 31.9 x 40.3 cm]

Gustave Leonard de Jonghe - Changeable Weather [1860-70]

Gustave Leonard de Jonghe - Changeable Weather [1860-70], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Gustave Leonard de Jonghe (Kortrijk, 1829 - Antwerp, 1893) was a Belgian painter. Although he started his career painting historical and sacred subject matter, he is famous for his genre paintings with bourgeois themes and rich materials. In 1855, he became in the direct successor of the renowned Belgian painter, Alfred Stevens, in Paris.

[Oil on panel, 70 x 51 cm]

Carl Moll - View of Nussdorf and Helligenstadt in Twilight [c.1905]

Carl Moll - View of Nussdorf and Helligenstadt in Twilight [c.1905], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Carl Moll (Vienna, 1861 - Vienna, 1945) was an Austrian painter. He was a pupil of Emil J. Schindler (the father of Alma Mahler-Werfel née Schindler). After his teacher's death (1892), Moll married Schindler's widow, Anna (née von Bergen). Moll was a founder-member of the Vienna Secession. A Nazi sympathiser, he committed suicide at the end of World War II.

Vincent van Gogh - White House at Night [1890]

Vincent van Gogh - White House at Night [1890], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

In May 1890, Vincent van Gogh came to Auvers-sur-Oise and painted a series of pictures with houses. The Auvers period began with the hope of a new life and the recovery of health. This sense of hope was expressed in the pictures executed in May. In the June paintings, the motif of the home remained at the centre of the artist's attention, but its emotional range expanded greatly - from gloomy foreboding to conciliation. Since the emotion was expressed by the artist not through the subject itself, but through his manipulation of the methods of painting, the structure of his compositions changed each time. In the present picture a frozen quality prevails, and the chief lines are stable horizontals and verticals. They are needed to draw a house, but they can turn it into a prison. The artist gives much attention to windows, the "eyes" of a home. The red splashes of the windows to the right are alarming; Van Gogh would draw a star, a sign of fate, at moments of greatest anguish. The White House at Night expresses the great psychological tension under which Van Gogh found himself.

[Oil on canvas, 59 x 72.5 cm]

Edward Bruce - A Tuscan Farm [c.1926-29]

Edward Bruce - A Tuscan Farm [c.1926-29], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Edward Bruce (Dover Plains, New York, 1879 - Hollywood, Florida, 1943) was an American painter.

[Oil on wood, 49.2 x 82.5 cm]