Restaurant de la Sirène, Asnières Mark Gertler Teniers was a prolific painter

Teniers was a prolific painter in several genres

He made preliminary drawings

and the pinnacle on the right-hand corner of the roof-line

inhabited by the receding forms of men and animals

Piero painted a poetic interpretation of the classical source

Restaurant de la Sirène, Asnières Mark Gertler Teniers was a prolific painterPainted 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. Asnires, 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.