Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 21
Alfred Sisley
"I like all
those painters
who loved
and had a
strong feeling
for nature."
Alfred Sisley
French, 1839 - 1899
L’Inondation à Moret-sur-Loing, 1888
Oil on canvas
20 x 28½ inches / 53.1 x 73 cm
Signed lower right: Sisley
After settling permanently at Moretsur-Loing near Fontainebleau in
1878, Sisley produced a series
of captivating views in which his
new rural surroundings reflect
changing light, seasons and weather
conditions.
The present work depicts a wintry
scene in which the river appears to
have burst its banks. Such a theme
was not uncommon in Sisley’s
oeuvre; several of his pictures
showing floods are housed in the
permanent collection of the Musée
d’Orsay, Paris.
Provenance
H. Vever, Paris
Anon. sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1 & 2 February, 1897, lot 101
George Viau, Paris
Anon. sale, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, Vente George Viau, 4 March 1907,
lot 71
Salomon, Copenhagen
Huguette Berès, Paris
Thence by descent
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Tableaux par P.A. Bernard, J.C. Cazin,
C. Monet, A. Sisley et F. Thaulow, 1899, no. 76
Copenhagen, Château de Charlottenborg, Peinture française, 1918
Literature
François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris,
1959, no. 694, illustrated
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