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Born in Paris in 1839 to English merchant parents who had settled in the capital for their business, Alfred Sisley chose painting after returning to France in 1860 and obtaining his family’s permission to give up the family business. As early as March 1863, he left Gleyre’s studio with three companions to work outdoors, notably in the Forest of Fontainebleau, at Barbizon and in the surrounding area. Landscapes and waterside scenes hold a lasting place in his work: the latter remained among his favourite subjects until the end of his life.
His places of work reflect this attention to landscape. Settled in Bougival in the late 1860s, he stayed with Monet in Argenteuil in early 1872 and painted a group of landscapes at Villeneuve-la-Garenne at that time. In Louveciennes, he produced, among other works, *Premières neiges à Louveciennes*, featuring the rue de Voisins in the hamlet where he lived; in 1875, he settled near the Abreuvoir in Marly-le-Roi, where he remained until the end of the winter of 1877–1878. Monet and Pissarro introduced him to Paul Durand-Ruel, whom he met in January 1872. The dealer bought fifty-nine paintings from him between 1872 and 1873. In 1873, Sisley joined Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas and Morisot in founding the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers. The following year, at the first exhibition of the Impressionist painters, held at Nadar’s from 15 April to 15 May, he presented six landscapes.
Several works from this period are now held in public collections: *Le Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne* (1872) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and *Passerelle d’Argenteuil* (1872) and *Le Chemin de la Machine, Louveciennes* (1873) at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Sisley died in Moret-sur-Loing in 1899.
This profile brings together identity references for Alfred Sisley and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Kornfeld · Dobiaschofsky · Piguet
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Oil on canvas
Le barrage à Saint-Mammès
oil on canvas
Catalogue period : 2022-06-17
Published result : 560000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 350000
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Le Loing et les coteaux de Saint-Nicaise - Soleil de Mars
oil on canvas
Catalogue period : 2022-06-17
Published result : 450000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 550000
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Chantier à Saint-Mammès
oil on canvas
Catalogue period : 2021-09-17
Published result : 750000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 800000
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Chemin tournant à Sèvres
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2017-06-16
Published result : 400000 CHF
Hammer price, excluding fees
Estimate : CHF 450000
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Oil on panel
Eglise de Saint-Mammès", vers 1885-1886,
huile sur panneau
Catalogue period : 2021-09-22
Published result : 110000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 120000–180000
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Oil on painting board
Suiveur de ALFRED SISLEY — Flussuferpartie mit Pappeln.
Öl auf Mkt
Nachfolger des
Date to be documented
Follower of
Published result : 600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000
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