Watering Place at Marly
Alfred Sisley
1875
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
39.5 × 56.2 cm (15 7/16 × 22 1/8 in.); Framed: 63.9 × 80.7 × 9.6 cm (25 1/8 × 31 3/4 × 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
37741
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...