Artist: Alfred Sisley (1839 - 1899)
Nationality: English
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born into an English family living in Paris, Alfred Sisley received his training in Paris, strongly influenced by Corot. In 1862, he studied under Charles Gleyre alongside fellow Impressionists Monet and Renoir. The three students traveled and exhibited together as strong leaders of the movement. Sisley often painted landscapes of the Sienne, Loire, and the Thames Rivers and focused on light in the clouds and reflections. Because of his lack of salesmanship, Sisley’s work did not sell and was not appreciated until after his death. As a result, he spent the end of his life in poverty.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Alfred Sisley, Banks of the Loing, 1891
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Alfred Sisley, Les Oies, 19th century
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Alfred Sisley, Bords du Loing: La charrette, 1890
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Alfred Sisley, Les bords du Loing a Saint-Mammes, 1896
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Alfred Sisley, Bords de Riviere /or Les Oies., 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun, 1894 Alfred Sisley (British, 1839-1899)Oil on canvas; 28 3/4 x
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Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter, 1891 Alfred Sisley (British, 1839-1899)Oil on canvas; 18 3/8
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The Seine at Bougival, 1876 Alfred Sisley (British, 1839-1899)Oil on canvas; 18 1/4 x 24
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The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872 Alfred Sisley (British, 1839-1899)Oil on canvas; 19 1/2 x 25
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Road from Versailles to Saint-Germain
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Road from Versailles to Louveciennes, probably 1879 Alfred Sisley (British, 1839-1899)Oil on canvas; 18
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Road from Moret to Saint-Mammès, 1883-85 Alfred Sisley (British, 1839-1899)Oil on canvas; 19 7/8
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant, 1876 Alfred Sisley (British, 1839-1899)Oil on canvas; 25 3/4 x
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Alfred Sisley - Meadow 1875 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Alfred Sisley - Rue a Louveciennes 1876 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum French
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Alfred Sisley - Le Pont de Moret 1888 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Alfred Sisley - The Banks of the Oise 1877-1878 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Alfred Sisley - The Road in the Woods 1879 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Alfred Sisley - The Seine at St. Mammes c. 1867-69 oil on canvas Muskegon Museum of Art American
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Alfred Sisley - Drying Nets 1872 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum French
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Alfred Sisley - Saint Mammes- Morning 1884 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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Stan Washburn, Sisley, 1982
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Alfred Sisley - Church at Moret after the Rain 1894 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Alfred Sisley - Flood at Port-Marly 1872 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Alfred Sisley - L'inondation, Port-Marly 1876 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum French
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Alfred Sisley - Boulevard Heloise, Argenteuil 1872 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Alfred Sisley - Saint-Mammes, Loing Canal 1885 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Alfred Sisley - The Terrace at Saint-Germain: Spring 1875 oil on fabric The Walters Art Museum French
Museum of Fine Arts -
Alfred Sisley, British (active in France), 1839-1899 Grapes and Walnuts on a Table 1876 Oil
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Alfred Sisley, British (active in France), 1839-1899 Overcast Day at Saint-Mammès about 1880 Oil on
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Alfred Sisley, British (active in France), 1839-1899 Waterworks at Marly 1876 Oil on canvas 46.5
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Alfred Sisley, British (active in France), 1839-1899 Early Snow at Louveciennes about 1870-71 Oil on
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Alfred la Guigne 1894 oil on cardboard National Gallery of Art French
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Alfred Brannon, The picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight (Newport, Isle of Wight: Alfred Brannon, 1864), 1864
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Alfred Rethel, Totentanz, No. 2, 1849
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Alfred Rethel, Totentanz, No. 3, 1849
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Alfred Rethel, Totentanz, No. 4, 1849
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Alfred Rethel, Totentanz, No. 5, 1849
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Alfred Rethel, Totentanz, No. 6, 1849
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Alfred Naumann, S. Jadosolas, 1894

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (25)
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Brooklyn Museum of Art: Public Programs - Impressionists in Winter
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Brooklyn Museum of Art: Public Programs - Impressionists in Winter
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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto: Chefs - d'Oeuvre du Misee de l'Orangerie
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin's Impressionist Pictures
A longtime supporter of the arts in New York, Janice Levin was an Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1993 until her death in 2001. A number of significant works from the collection have been bequeathed to American museums, inc...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Public Programs - Impressionists in Winter
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Vancouver Art Gallery: Impressionist Masterworks from the National Gallery of Canada
The first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 exploded like a bombshell in the complacent world of French academic art. The young artists who participated in this show and the seven exhibitions that followed, had abandoned historical subje...
Denver Art Museum: Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums
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National Academy of Professional Plein air Painters: Atelier Monet: Summer Workshop 2001 in La Roche-Guyon (Paris)
La Roche Guyon is located 65 km west of Paris and 5 kilometres from Giverny. You will be staying in one of two Chambre d'hotes Normande in Giverny. Each of the five rooms has its own shower. The Impressionists were the painters of ligh...
National Academy ofProfessional Plein air Painters: Summer Workshops 2000
There will be 7 full days entirely devoted to painting with the medium of your choice. La Roche-Guyon with its castle and white chalk cliff hanging above the Seine River ...
University Art Museum and Gallery: Eternity and a Moment: Paintings by Lam Man-kong
Since 1990 Lam has been living in Paris, where he studied in the École Nationale Superieur des Beaux-arts from 1990 to 1992. He spent one year copying the great masters paintings at the Musée Louvre. He finds inspiration in Impressionist artist...
Bergen Art Museum: Visions of Nature from Le Petit Palais in Paris
The exhibition will take the visitor on a journey through some of the most outstanding pieces of European landscape painting from the seventeenth through the beginning of the twentieth century. The viewer will have an unique opportunity to take a...
Hong Kong Museum of Art: Impressionism: Treasures from the National Collection of France
Interpreting impression as an impression at a glance or frozen in time, these artists turned their back on traditional subjects - historical events, mythology and religious themes - and instead recorded the cityscapes, daily life as well as char...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
The exhibition will feature eighty-one masterpieces from the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection of the Musée national de l'Orangerie in Paris: fourteen paintings by Cézanne, six Derain...
National Gallery of Canada: Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape
The Impressionists' profound influence on French landscape painting is examined as the exhibition concludes with a look at works by other artists in th...
Orange Regional Art Gallery: Visionary Art: Curated by Damian Michaels
All of the artwork exhibited in the show will be from The Collection Art Visionary - 30 to 35 artists representing over 12 countries. A catalogue is available through the gallery as well as through Art Visionary...
Van Gogh Museum: Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1869-1890
Art history generally ... has neglected the hand. ... The aim of this exhibition is to reopen the question of manual dexterity and to reconsider the physical intelligence of artists by directly confronting paintings that are, in themse...
National Gallery of Art: The Impressionists at Argenteuil
The dazzling, lyrical paintings that make up this exhibition reflect the richness of the impressionists' responses to the Argenteuil site and the complex dialogue that developed among them as they studied...
Pump House Gallery: The White Station: Axel Antas, Helen Chadwick, Simon Faithfull, Andy Goldsworthy, Heidi Morstang, Seifollah Samadian
Photographs by Andy Goldsworthy document 'Midsummer Snowballs', an incongruous siting of large snowballs placed in the City of London. Helen Chadwick's notorious 'Piss Flowers' were formed by imprints taken of patterns made by the artist and he...
National Gallery: Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890
Art history generally ... has neglected the hand. ... The aim of this exhibition is to reopen the question of manual dexterity and to reconsider the physical intelligence of artists by directly confronting paintings that are, in themselves, dir...
Royal Academy of Arts: Ingres to Matisse: Masterpieces of French Painting
Opening with work by Ingres and Delacroix and closing with the paintings of Picasso and Matisse, the exhibition will provide a broad overview of French painting from the early nineteenth-century to the 1930s. Ingres to Matisse ...
Seattle Art Museum: Impressionism Paintings Collected by European Museums
Impressionism will provide an overview of the revolutionary 19th-century art movement, while also offering new insights into Impressionism’s early ...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Light: The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society
Light! was organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, where it was previously on view. Pittsburgh is the only other venue for this remarkable exhibition. The exhibition is sponsored by Bayer ...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: RENOIR TO PICASSO: Masterpieces from the Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris
These are paintings from a legendary collection founded by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Guillaume, whose remarkable achievement was to persuade wealthy P...
Dayton Art Institute: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
The exhibition spans more than 100 years and includes such great masterpieces as Claude Monets Charing Cross Bridge (Reflections on the Thames) (1901-1904), oil on canvas; Edouard Manets The Café-Concert (1878-1879), oil on canvas; Edgar Degas...
Kimbell Art Museum: Gauguin and Impressionism
The exhibition and its scholarly catalogue deal with the full range of the artist’s participation in the Impressionist movement:  the paintings he submitted to the Impressionist exhibitions, the ways in which his extensive private collection inspi...

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