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Alfred Sisley
"The animation of the canvas is one of
the hardest problems of painting."
Alfred Sisley
French, 1839 - 1899
Entre Moret et Saint-Mammès, 1883
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
19¾ x 25 inches / 50.2 x 65.1 cm
Signed lower left: Sisley
In 1883, the renowned French dealer
Paul Durand-Ruel showed seventy
works by Sisley in a one-man show
at his gallery in Paris, including the
present work.
Sisley drew inspiration from the
Ile-de-France countryside for many
of his compositions. Saint-Mammès,
where the River Loing flows into
the Seine near Paris, was one of the
artist’s favourite locations and one
which he frequently revisited in
paint, chiefly because of his marked
interest in the effects produced by
light on water.
Provenance
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, November 1883 (acquired directly from
the artist)
Henri Vevier, Paris, January 1893 (acquired from the above)
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1897
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 January 1928, lot 80
Charles Sessler, New York
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, April 1937 (acquired from the above)
A. Boissier, New York
Jasmin S. Trembly, Lausanne, January 1947 (acquired from the above)
Private collection, thence by descent
Exhibited
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Alfred Sisley Centennial,
1840-1940, October 1939, no. 19
Literature
François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint,
Lausanne, 1959, no. 497, illustrated
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