Three Sketches-Two Geese Walking; Peasant Woman with a Cow; Goose Hiding its Head

Alfred Sisley

1895–97

Three Sketches-Two Geese Walking; Peasant Woman with a Cow; Goose Hiding its Head by Alfred Sisley

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

Tags

WomenCowsGeese

About the Artist

Alfred Sisley · 18391899

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...

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