Sisley, Alfred - The Loing Canal - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: The Canal of Loing / Le Canal du Loing
• Artist (if known): Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: Mussee de Louvre, France / Editions Nomis, Paris
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Alfred Sisley (French pronunciation: [al.f??d sis.l?]) (30 October 1839 � 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs.

Among his important works are a series of paintings of the River Thames, mostly around Hampton, executed in 1874, and landscapes depicting places in or near Moret-sur-Loing.

Sisley was born on 30 October 1839 in Paris to affluent British parents. His father, William Sisley, was in the silk business, and his mother Felicia Sell was a cultivated music connoisseur.

In 1857 at the age of 18 Sisley was sent to London to study for a career in business; but he abandoned it after four years and returned to Paris in 1861. From 1862 he studied at the Paris �cole des Beaux-Arts within the atelier of Swiss artist Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, where he became acquainted with Fr�d�ric Bazille, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Together they would paint landscapes en plein air rather than in the studio, in order to realistically capture the transient effects of sunlight. This approach, innovative at the time, resulted in paintings more colorful and more broadly painted than the public was accustomed to seeing. Consequently, Sisley and his friends initially had few opportunities to exhibit or sell their work. Their works were usually rejected by the jury of the most important art exhibition in France, the annual Salon. During the 1860s, though, Sisley was in a better financial position than some of his fellow artists, as he received an allowance from his father.

In 1866 Sisley began a relationship with Eug�nie Lesouezec (1834�1898; also known as Marie Lescouezec), a Breton living in Paris. The couple produced two children: son Pierre (born 1867) and daughter Jeanne (1869).^[1] At the time Sisley lived not far from Avenue de Clichy and the Caf� Guerbois, the gathering-place of many Parisian painters.

In 1868 his paintings were accepted at the Salon, but the exhibition did not bring him financial or critical success; nor did subsequent exhibitions.

Sisley's student works are lost. His earliest known work, Lane near a Small Town, is believed to have been painted around 1864. His first landscape paintings are sombre, coloured with dark browns, greens, and pale blues. They were often executed at Marly and Saint-Cloud. Little is known about Sisley's relationship with the paintings of J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, which he may have seen in London, but some have suggested that these artists may have influenced his development as an Impressionist painter,^[6] as may have Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

Among the Impressionists Sisley has been overshadowed by Monet, although his work most resembles that of Camille Pissarro. Described by art historian Robert Rosenblum as having ""almost a generic character, an impersonal textbook idea of a perfect Impressionist painting"",^[7] his work strongly invokes atmosphere, and his skies are always impressive. He concentrated on landscape more consistently than any other Impressionist painter.

Among Sisley's best-known works are Street in Moret and Sand Heaps, both owned by the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Bridge at Moret-sur-Loing, shown at Mus�e d'Orsay, Paris. All�e des peupliers de Moret (The Lane of Poplars at Moret) has been stolen three times from the Mus�e des Beaux-Arts in Nice - once in 1978 when on loan in Marseille (recovered a few days later in the city's sewers), again in 1998 (when the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years with two accomplices) and finally in August 2007 (on 4 June 2008 French police recovered it and three other stolen paintings from a van in Marseilles).^[8]

In 1952 Paul Georges sells a painting in New York City putatively by Alfred Sisley (for $2000) to help neighbor Mme. Mac Guffie a widow from France. Her husband was a dentist from Scotland who traded paintings from his customers who were Impressionist painters.

An amazingly large number of fake Sisleys have been discovered. Sisley had produced some 900 oil paintings, some 100 pastels and many other drawings, although he had become only 59 years old.

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