Le canal du Loing à Saint-Mammès

细节

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
Le canal du Loing à Saint-Mammès
signed and dated 'Sisley.85' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18¼ x 21 7/8 in. (46.4 x 55.1 cm.)
Painted in 1885

来源

Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, October 1890).
Viscount Rothermere, London (acquired from the above, February 1937).
Mary, Viscountess Rothermere, London (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, New York, 12 May 1999, lot 13.

出版

F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 611 (illustrated).

展览

The Manchester City Art Gallery, Modern French Paintings, 1907-1908, p. 37, no. 182 (titled The Banks of the Canal).
Paris, Durand-Ruel et Cie., Tableaux de Sisley, February-March 1930, no. 55 (titled Bords de canal, St-Mammès).
Paris, Durand-Ruel et Cie., Exposition de tableaux par Alfred Sisley, January-February 1937, no. 35 (titled Bords de canal à St-Mammès).
London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., The French Impressionists and Some of Their Contemporaries, April-May 1963, p. 12, no. 31 (illustrated).

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拍场告示

Please note additional PROVENANCE details:
M. Kapférer, Paris.
Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above, 26 February 1889).
Durand-Ruel at Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 24 October 1890). Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris (1901-1913).
(?)George Durand-Ruel, Paris (by descent from the above)
Viscount Rothermere, London (acquired from the above, 15 February 1937).
Please note additional EXHIBITION:
Périgeux, Exposition de la Société des Beaux-Arts, 1898.

拍品专文

Sisley settled in the small village of Saint-Mammès in the autumn of 1883. Close to the confluence of the rivers Seine and Loing about twenty miles south-east of Paris, St-Mammès offered Sisley with a vast variety of subjects for his paintings. Between 1882 and 1885, the year of the present picture, he executed a number of works from different vantage points along the banks of the river Loing. Sisley's main concern was to capture the landscape at different times of the day and during different seasons. The critic Gustave Geffroy wrote:

He sought to express the harmonies that prevail, in all weathers and at every time of the day, between foliage, water and sky, and he succeeded... He loved river banks; the fringes of woodland; towns and villages glimpsed through the trees; old buildings swamped in greenery; wintery morning sunlight; summer afternoons. (G. Geffroy, "Sisley," Les Cahiers d'Aujourd'hui, 1923)