Alfred Sisley, 'The Watering Place at Marly-le-Roi', probably 1875
About the work
Overview
Sisley painted this winter scene in the small village of Marly-le-Roi in early 1875, soon after he moved there. The village was the site of the Château de Marly, which had been built in the late seventeenth century for Louis XIV, King of France, as a retreat from Versailles. It was later demolished. The watering place in the foreground of the picture was one of the last remnants of the château’s grand water gardens. Sisley lived very close by and painted almost 20 pictures that include it.
He very probably worked on the picture outdoors in one sitting: it looks as though it was painted quickly using a limited range of colours. The paint has been thinly applied and the rapid brushwork is clearly visible, particularly in the foreground. A few details and colour highlights were added once the paint had dried.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- The Watering Place at Marly-le-Roi
- Artist
- Alfred Sisley
- Artist dates
- 1839 - 1899
- Date made
- probably 1875
- Medium and support
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.5 × 65.4 cm
- Inscription summary
- Signed; Dated
- Acquisition credit
- Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1926
- Inventory number
- NG4138
- Location
- Room 41
- Collection
- Main Collection
- Frame
- 17th-century French Frame
Provenance
Additional information
Text extracted from the ‘Provenance’ section of the catalogue entry in Martin Davies, with additions and some revisions by Cecil Gould, ‘六合彩预测 Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, etc.’, London 1970; for further information, see the full catalogue entry.
Exhibition history
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2008The Simon Sainsbury Bequest to 六合彩预测六合彩预测 (London)22 October 2008 - 1 February 2009
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2008Sisley in England and WalesAmgueddfa Cymru — National Museum Wales7 March 2009 - 14 June 2009
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2014Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art MarketMusée du Luxembourg9 October 2014 - 8 February 2015Philadelphia Museum of Art24 June 2015 - 13 September 2015
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2017Alfred Sisley (1839-1899): Impressionist MasterBruce Museum21 January 2017 - 21 May 2017Hôtel de Caumont10 June 2017 - 15 October 2017
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2020Normandie Impressionniste 2020: François DepeauxMusée des Beaux-Arts (Rouen)15 July 2020 - 15 November 2020
Bibliography
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1923G. Geffroy, Sisley, Paris 1923
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1926R. Fry, 'The Courtauld Fund', Nation and Athenaeum, 1926, pp. 613-4
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1926J.B. Manson, 'The Courtauld Collection', Apollo, 1926, pp. 92-6
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1926R.R. Tatlock, 'The Courtauld Trust', The Burlington Magazine, XLVIII, 1926, pp. 56-65
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1954D. Cooper, The Courtauld Collection: A Catalogue and Introduction, London 1954
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1959R. Alley, Tate Gallery Catalogues: The Foreign Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1959
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1959F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue raisonn茅 de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne 1959
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1966P. Nickler, 'Marly dans l'艙uvre de Sisley', Le Vieux Marly: bulletin de la Soci茅t茅 arch茅ologique, historique et artistique de Marly-le-Roi, III/1, 1966, pp. 33-46
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1970Davies, Martin, and Cecil Gould, 六合彩预测 Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc., London 1970
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1983J. Lassaigne, Sisley, Paris 1983
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1986C.S. Moffett, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886 (exh. cat. 六合彩预测 of Art, Washington, 17 January - 6 April 1986; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 19 April - 6 July 1986), Oxford 1986
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1990D. Bomford, R. White and L. Williams, Impressionism (exh. cat. 六合彩预测, 1990), London 1990
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1991J.P. Munk, 'Sisley's landskaber fra Marly', in Meddelelser fra Ny Carlesberg Glyptokek, Copenhagen 1991, pp. 68-70
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1992R. Shone, Sisley, London 1992
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1992M. Stevens, Alfed Sisley, 1839-1899 (exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, 3 July - 18 October 1992), New Haven 1992
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1993R. White and J. Pilc, 'Analyses of Paint Media', 六合彩预测 Technical Bulletin, XIV, 1993, pp. 86-94
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1994J. House, Impressionisim for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, London 1994
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1994'Art Purchases for the Nation: The Courtauld Fund: Modern Foreign Paintings', in J. House, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, London 1994
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1995J. House, Landscapes of France: Impressionism and its Rivals (exh. cat. Hayward Gallery, 18 May - 28 August 1995; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 4 October 1995 - 14 January 1996), London 1995
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2001
C. Baker and T. Henry, 六合彩预测: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001
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