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Alfred Sisley
English, 1839–1899
The Loing and the Mills of Moret, Snow Effect
1891
Sisley probably painted this snowy landscape outdoors in a single session during the unusually cold winter of 1891. Poplars cast long blue shadows across the riverbank—their trunks reflected in the icy water—while wispy clouds float across the blue sky. The artist used a cool, silvery palette and applied paint in thin, liquid strokes to convey the crisp atmosphere of a winter’s day.
Image Caption
Alfred Sisley, The Loing and the Mills of Moret, Snow Effect, 1891, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.545
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
23 1/8 x 32 1/8 in. (58.7 x 81.6 cm)
Frame: 32 1/2 x 41 1/4 in. (82.6 x 104.8 cm)
Object Number
1955.545
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. François Daulte.. Alfred Sisley.. Lausanne: Durand-Ruel.. 1959.. George Heard Hamilton.. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art.. New York: Abrams.. 1970.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Milwaukee Art Museum. 1888: Frederic Layton and His World. Exhibition catalogue. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
[Possibly Marie Harriman Gallery, New York]¹; Gerald Brooks, New York; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 1 Apr. 1946, as Paysage, effet de Neige]; Robert Sterling Clark (1946–55 ; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
1. A label on the back of the painting from the Harriman Gallery suggests that it may have been owned by the gallery, or simply exhibited there. The gallery was in business between 1930 and 1942.