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Alfred Sisley Art Prints

Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)

5 museum-quality prints of works by Alfred Sisley, each made to order on archival paper and shipped to your wall.

Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was born in Paris to English parents and kept his British citizenship all his life, though nearly all of it was spent in France. In 1862 he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met Monet, Renoir, and Bazille; the group soon left to paint outdoors around the Forest of Fontainebleau, developing what became Impressionism. Sisley was the most consistent of them in his devotion to landscape, rarely painting anything else. Settled at Marly-le-Roi from 1875, he painted the Seine and its river life repeatedly, as in The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand and Watering Place at Marly (both 1875).

After his family’s finances collapsed in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, Sisley lived in near poverty, moving in the early 1880s to Moret-sur-Loing, whose streets and river corners occupied his late work — Street in Moret (c. 1890) among them. Recognition came only after his death there in 1899.