La berge à Saint-Mammès

Details

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
La berge à Saint-Mammès
signed and dated 'Sisley 84' (lower right)
oil on canvas
16 5/8 x 23 3/8in. (42.3 x 59.4cm.)
Painted in 1884

Provenance

Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris.
Charles Guasco, Paris; his sale, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 11 June 1900, lot 71 (3,300 Francs) to Durand-Ruel.
Durand-Ruel, Paris.
Werner Herold, Saint-Jean-les-Deux-Jumeaux, by whom purchased from the above, 17 August 1917.
Henri Bordaniet, Paris.
Purchased by the father of the present owner from the above in Paris on 2 May 1946 (Ffr. 15,000).

Literature

G. Jedlicka, Sisley, Berne, 1949 (illustrated pl.34).
F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no.514 (illustrated: with the incorrect measurements).

Exhibited

Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Alfred Sisley, February - March 1902, no. 33.
London, Grafton Galleries, Paintings by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January - February 1905, no. 315.
Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Alfred Sisley, April - May 1914, no. 65.
Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Alfred Sisley, May - June 1917, no. 22.
Paris, Galerie Beaux-Arts, La peinture française du XIXe siècle en Suisse, 1937, no. 114.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

During the first half of the 1880's, while living in Veneux-Nadon, Les Sablons and Moret, Sisley frequented the port of Saint-Mamm/ges at the confluence of the rivers Seine and Loing. It is here that he painted over a number of years, views of both the picturesque river bank, such as La Berge a Saint-Mam/ges, and the working quays. (S.Patin, Alfred Sisley, exh.cat London July 1992-June 1993, p.206).
The present picture was first acquired by the famous collector and singer Jean-Baptiste Faure (fig.1). Sisley was amongst his favourite artists, along with Pissarro, Manet, Monet, and Degas. Later this work was sold to Durand Ruel who exhibited at the Grafton Gallery in 1905 (fig.2) during an exhibition that included some of the greatest masters such as Cezanne, Morisot and others.

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