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| Henri Le Sidaner Clair de lune à Gerberoy 1904 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Henri Le Sidaner Clair de lune before 1925 oil on canvas Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries, West Yorkshire |
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| Henri Le Sidaner Clair de lune before 1939 oil on canvas Paisley Art Institute Collection, Scotland |
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| Henri Le Sidaner A Beauvais Square by Moonlight 1900 oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
"Henri Eugène Le Sidaner began his career around 1880 as a young apprentice of Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Soon he was seduced by the Parisian artistic fervour, particularly the works of both the Impressionists and the post-Impressionists. After a few months, repressed by the academic milieu, the painter abruptly decided to settle in Étaples, a small village near Pas-de-Calais, where he finished his training in solitude. Distant from the contemporary artistic mainstreams of the capital, Le Sidaner mainly represented Northern landscapes filled with humble personages, adopting a manner that both recalled the Naturalism of Corot and the immediacy of the Impressionists. Nevertheless, his poetic atmospheres were permeated with a personal intimate sentimenatalism. In 1887 the painter exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and from 1892 at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. From 1892 until 1894 Le Sidaner traveled through Holland and Italy, and eventually returned to Paris where he approached the Symbolist circles and struck up friendships with both Henri Martin and Ernest Laurent. By that time the artist had brought about a shift in language by adopting a more classical formula in depicting his melancholic atmospheres. In an earlier phase, his subject-matter was often focused on young women within crepuscular landscapes . . . Later his choice privileged private scenarios devoid of human presence and rendered with diffused light and warm tones. During his life the painter was often awarded prizes, such as the bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1900, and was lavishly represented by both private galleries (Paris, Galerie George Petit) and temporary exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Le Sidaner kept traveling throughout his career (Venice, London, etc.), refining his technique and eventually moved to Versailles, where he died in 1939."
– Dominique Lora, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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| Henri Le Sidaner Gypsy Wagon in Moonlight before 1922 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Henri Le Sidaner L'Île Madre - Clair de lune 1908-1909 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Manchester |
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| Henri Le Sidaner The Snow 1901 oil on canvas Burrell Collection, Glasgow |
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| Henri Le Sidaner The Lighted Window 1905-1906 oil and chalk on paper, mounted on panel Burrell Collection, Glasgow |
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| Henri Le Sidaner An Autumn Evening 1895 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Henri Le Sidaner A Canal in Bruges at Dusk ca. 1898 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Henri Le Sidaner Corner of Versailles Park before 1936 oil on panel Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire |
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| Henri Le Sidaner House of Roses before 1917 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Henri Le Sidaner Garden by a Pool before 1932 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Henri Le Sidaner The Gateway 1902 pastel on paper University of Dundee Art Collections, Scotland |