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Alfred Sisley
English, 1839–1899
The Thames at Hampton Court
1874
In 1874, Sisley participated in the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris. Later that year, he visited London and painted a dozen works exploring a stretch of the Thames around Hampton Court in different atmospheric conditions. This small canvas records the view on a tranquil day, with sailboats and swans floating on the water. The composition is simple and the modeling sketchy, the artist’s attention focused on the play of light on the surface of the river and in the cloud-filled sky.
Image Caption
Alfred Sisley, The Thames at Hampton Court, 1874, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.560
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
15 x 21 3/4 in. (38.1 x 55.2 cm)
Frame: 20 x 26 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (50.8 x 67.9 x 5.7 cm)
Object Number
1955.560
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.. 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. Arts Council of Great Britain.. The Impressionists in London. Jan. 3-March 11, 1973.. 1973 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. Nicholas Reed.. Sisley and the Thames.. London: Lilburne Press.. 1991.. Iain Gale.. Sisley.. London: Studio Editions.. 1992.. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Raymond Cogniat, tr. by Alice Sachs.. Sisley.. Vaduz, Liechtenstein: Bonfini.. c. 1992.. London: Barbican Art Gallery.. Impressionism in Britain. Jan. 19-May 7, 1995. Exh.cat. by Kenneth McConkey.. London: Barbican Art Gallery/Yale University Press.. 1995.. 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
[Carroll Carstairs, New York, sold to Clark, 6 Mar. 1937]; Robert Sterling Clark (1937–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.