Three Sketches-Two Geese Walking; Peasant Woman with a Cow; Goose Hiding its Head
1895–97
Medium
Three separate sheets of varying sizes, with the same mediums and supports: graphite and colored crayon on buff wove paper, darkened
Dimensions
2 3/4 x 5 1/8 in. (7 x 13 cm); 2 7/16 x 2 3/16 in. (6.2 x 5.5 cm); 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 in. (6 x 7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.727
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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...