Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)
Watering Place at Marly
INV-3774
Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)1875
Watering Place at Marly
Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899) →Impressionismnineteenth century19th centuryoil on canvaspaint
Date
1875
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
39.5 × 56.2 cm (15 7/16 × 22 1/8 in.); Framed: 63.9 × 80.7 × 9.6 cm (25 1/8 × 31 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Clive Runnells
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.
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