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Description: Painted in 1882. Signed Sisley (lower right) Oil on canvas

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Dimensions: measurements 19 3/4 by 29 in. alternate measurements 50 by 73.5 cm

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Provenance: Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris (acquired from the artist on September 6, 1883)Catholina A. Lambert, New York (acquired from the above)Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above on April 14, 1899)Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (in 1949)Private Collection, Switzerland (sold: Christie's, New York, May 2, 2006, lot 4)Acquired at the above sale

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Exhibited:

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Sisley , 1914, no. 18

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Sisley, 1935, no. 11

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Sisley, 1957, no. 38

Bern, Kunstmuseum, Alfred Sisley , 1958, no. 46

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Sisley , 1971, no. 36

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Published: François Daulte, Alfred Sisley, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1959, no. 457, illustratedMary Anne Stevens, Alfred Sisley (exhibition catalogue), Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1992, discussed note 28, p. 72

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Notes: This painting will be included in the new edition of the Catalogue raisonné of Alfred Sisley by François Daulte being prepared at Galerie Brame & Lorenceau by the Comité Alfred Sisley.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
Sisley was fascinated by the river Loing and its tributaries, and he painted it from a multitude of viewpoints throughout the 1880s. In the present work he has set up his easel along the path leading to the one of the river's canals, where locals would launch their boats into the water. Juxtaposing brushstrokes of bright yellow, green and purple tones, he captures the shifting effect of sunlight and shadows and the reflection of some nearby houses on the surface of the water. As one of the leading Impressionist landscapists, Sisley was always interested in recording the changing play of light on the water. For this picture, he chose to paint the scene on a bright summer day, when the sky was an intense blue and dotted with scattered clouds. This work was once in the collection of Catholina A. Lambert, a major industrialist on the East Coast, who had residences in New York and New Jersey. By the turn of the century, Lambert had amassed an art collection that was so large that he built a castle called the "Bella Vista" (now the Passaic County Historical Society) to display all of his treasures.