Banks of the River (Les Bords de rivière)
Alfred Sisley
1897
Medium
color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 21.5 x 32.1 cm (8 7/16 x 12 5/8 in.) sheet: 43 x 56.7 cm (16 15/16 x 22 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.16.234
About the Artist
Alfred Sisley · 1839–1899
Alfred Sisley (1839–1899) was a British-born French Impressionist landscape painter who remained the most consistently devoted to pure Impressionist principles throughout his career. Born in Paris to prosperous English parents, he studied at the atelier of Charles Gleyre alongside Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Frédéric Bazille, forming friendships that placed him at the heart of the eme...