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The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand
Alfred Sisley (British, active in France, 1839–1899)LinkedCulture matchlcp-f2324099060b
- Date
- 1875
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 16633
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Of all the landscapes Alfred Sisley painted in and around Marly-le-Roi, where he lived from 1875 to 1878, this scene of workers dredging sand to facilitate barge traffic is perhaps the most original. Generally, the Impressionists showed the Seine River as a place of weekend leisure for Parisians, painting activities such as boating, yachting, promenading, and dining. Sisley depicted the river during the workweek, along with some of the men who depended on it for their livelihood.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Provenance
- Georges Viau, Paris; his sale, Galeries Durand-Ruel, March 4, 1907, lot 74 (ill.), as La Seine à Port-Marly, 1875; bought in by Durand-Ruel [acc. to London 1992]. Georges Bernheim, Paris, April 1920 [acc. to archival Registrar card]; Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, June 11, 1920 [acc. to Ryerson purchase book; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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