Watering Place at Marly
Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)1875
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
In 1875 Alfred Sisley moved to the village of Marly-le-Roi, where in the 1600s King Louis XIV had built an elegant country retreat. The artist’s home on the rue de l’Abreuvoir flanked the pool, or “watering place,” featured on the left of this canvas. The pool was all that remained of the water gardens that had been part of the king’s park.
Sisley remained faithful to landscape subjects throughout his career, spending most of his life painting in the villages along the Seine River, in the region referred to as the cradle of Impressionism.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 39.5 × 56.2 cm (15 7/16 × 22 1/8 in.)
Museum record · 6 owners · 3 exhibitions
Provenance
- Louis Flornoy, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 10, 1905, lot 40 for 5350 fr. to Camentron.
- M. L. Camentron, Paris.
- Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris and New York.
- M. Ziegler.
- Possibly Wildenstein and Co., New York.
- Mrs. Clive Runnells, Lake Forest, Illinois by 1971; given to the Art Institute, December 1971.
Exhibitions
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago / Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28 - September 6, 1984 / October 23, 1984 - January 6, 1985 / February 8 - April 2, 1985.
- Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art / Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18 - December 17, 1985 / January 5 - February 2, 1986 / March 4 - April 13, 1986.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008.
