This beautiful painting by Théo Van Rysselberghe was painted in Knokke in 1894 during a summer spent with his friend, the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. It depicts the typical little houses that can still be found today in the immediate Knokke countryside. Van Rysselberghe painted many fine Neo-Impressionist canvases during the summer, including landscapes of the Dutch coast. This painting was sold in London in 2011 and has since been lost. It is now back on loan to the Art Gallery of Ontario, where Olivier Bertrand, the artist’s expert who exhibited it at the 2006 Van Rysselberghe retrospective, has rediscovered it.