Houses in the Moonlight (Maisons au clair de lune), 19th century
Ernest-André Andreasexpand_more
Pastel on paperexpand_more
Gift of Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisbergexpand_more 2023.70.3
Not on Viewexpand_more
Little is known about the career of Ernest-André Andreas. We do know that he was treated for depression by Dr. Paul Gachet, the physician who cared for the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in 1890. At age 31, Andreas appears to have drowned in the Oise, a river that flows near Auvers-sur-Oise, the village near Paris where van Gogh ended his life.
Andreas’s surviving works suggest that the artist made a living in Paris as an illustrator, often for magazines. As Houses in the Moonlight demonstrates, he also took up pastel. In this haunting image of a slightly overcast night scene, the shapes of the buildings and the water in the foreground are only just discernible.
Details
- Title
- Houses in the Moonlight (Maisons au clair de lune)
- Artist Life
- Châteauroux[?] 1868–Auvers-sur-Oise 1899
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2023.70.3
- Provenance
- Sale, Thierry-Lannon, Brest, France, July 19, 2008, no. 450; sale, Thierry-Lannon, November 18, 2008, no. 24; sale, Thierry-Lannon, May 2, 2009, no. 376; sale, Thierry-Lannon, November 6, 2009, no. 15; [Christine Bethenod, Paris, until 2011; to Weisberg]; Yvonne and Gabriel Weisberg, Minneapolis; their gift to Mia, 2023.
- Curator Approved
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