The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
Alfred Sisley
1872
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
19 1/2 x 25 3/4 in. (49.5 x 65.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr., 1964
Accession Number
64.287
Tags
RiversBoatsBuildingsBridges
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...