On the Banks of the Loing: Houses by the Water
Alfred Sisley
1890
Medium
etching with burnishing on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.7 × 22.5 cm (5 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 22.3 × 30.7 cm (8 3/4 × 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2022.25.3
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...